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Entries in Odd (5)

Friday
Feb102012

Deely Boppers #0092

The collector: Graham Powell, designer and course director of the MA Product Design programme at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, UK.

The collection: Deely Boppers.

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Wednesday
Oct192011

Stray Shopping Carts #0065

Julian-MontagueThe collector: Julian Montague, Artist/Graphic Designer, Buffalo, New York.

The collection: Documenting stray shopping carts.

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Wednesday
Sep282011

Bin Laden Ephemera #0060

The collector: Martin Parr, Magnum Photographer, UK.

The collection: Osama Bin Laden ephemera.

As well as being an accomplished and highly regarded documentary photographer and photojournalist, Martin Parr is also a well known collector of unusual objects. He was kind enough to allow us to interview him and share his thoughts regarding a collection that has recently been brought to a 'conclusion'.

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Monday
Jun272011

Eccentric Contraptions #0035

The Collector: Maurice Collins, East London (UK)

The Collection: Bizarre, weird and unusual manufactured devices, used in everyday life between the years of the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festival of Britain 1951.

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Friday
Apr152011

#0007 Plastic grass

The collector:  Marlene Little - Photographer, Textile Designer, Curator, University Lecturer.

The collection: Plastic grass.

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