Monday, December 19, 2011

12.18.11
from the series
Women of Substance, Sacrifice and Prodigious Misfortune

Sunday, December 11, 2011


She was beautiful but capriciously cruel, 2011
from the series
Women of Substance, Sacrifice and Prodigious Misfortune

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Everyone envied her style, 2011
from the series
Women of Substance, Sacrifice and Prodigious Misfortune

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Nicol's Restaurant
Weston-super-Mare, 1977


Friday, November 25, 2011


India, 1984

Snapshot #8
date unknown

Wednesday, November 23, 2011


Random Treasure # 32
Monkey Brand Black Tooth Powder

Monday, November 21, 2011

Dental reconstruction wall painting
Oaxaca, Mexico, a while ago

Friday, November 18, 2011


Bed & Breakfast
Weston-super-Mare, 1977

Thursday, November 17, 2011


Random Treasure # 31
Salle de Bains, Hotel Continental
Ern. Thill, Bruxelles

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Random Treasure #30
Packaging for dollhouse family, minus the family

Friday, November 11, 2011


Random Treasure #29
from the Household Searchlight Recipe Book, 1954

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Random Treasure#28
Potato Head Game from Life Magazine
date unknown

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Everything I Need To Know Before I'm Five
was chosen as a
Publishers Weekly Best Picture Books of 2011!

"Everything? Believe it. Fisher introduces readers to a wealth of concepts—numbers,
letters, colors, shapes, weather, and more—and does so using cleverly composed 
photographic tableaus made up of vintage toys, knickknacks, thrift-store finds, and 
other odds and ends. Thorough, fun, and as one-of-a-kind as the objects that fill its pages."

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Random Treasure #27
Illustration for Newspaper Advertisement

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Random Treasure #26
Illustration for Newspaper Advertisement

Tuesday, October 4, 2011


Random Treasure #25
Illustration for Newspaper Advertisement

Friday, September 23, 2011


Surround, 2011
Silver plate spoon and mixed media, 8"

Sunday, September 18, 2011


Snare, 2011
Silver plate spoon and mixed media, 8"

Snapshot #8
date unknown 

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Snapshot #6
January 1966
Snapshot #7
date unknown

Friday, September 16, 2011


Snapshot #5
date unknown


Thursday, September 15, 2011


Snapshot #4
date unknown

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Snapshot #3
date unknown

Tuesday, September 13, 2011


Snapshot #2
date unknown

Monday, September 12, 2011


 Snapshot #1
date unknown

Thursday, September 8, 2011


Meringue, Guatemala, 2009
Random Treasure #24
Handbag Shop in London, 2010

Thursday, September 1, 2011


Random Treasure #24
from A Handy Illustrated Guide to Football 
by Sam Nisenson 1949

Saturday, July 23, 2011



In a starred review Publisher's Weekly writes "Fisher  gives preschoolers a leg up on need-to-know information in this energetic collection. In candy-colored multimedia collages, built with dollhouse-size toys and yard-sale bric-a-brac, she presents such topics as weather, seasons, and numbers up to 20. ... Considering all the titles on just one of these topics, these vintage/tacky photo-spreads are worth several books in one, even as they display the vast potential in rummage sales and vending machines." 
And the Wall Street Journal adds "There's a faint haziness in Ms. Fisher's photographic style that gives her tableaux a sugared quality; you feel vaguely that you ought to be able to pluck the objects off the page and eat them."

Monday, July 4, 2011

Happy 4th of July
Miss Liberty, At Dawn's First Peep 
by Charles A. Beck 1908
from Firecrackers -The Art & History, 2000
by Warren Dotz, Jack Mingo and George Moyer

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

First Day of Summer
Random Treasure #22
from Montgomery Ward, Spring and Summer, 1956
 

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Happy Father's Day

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Dirty Dishes, 2011
Silver plate spoon and mixed media, 8"

Saturday, May 28, 2011


Random Treasure #21
Motorcyclist from a Mexican board game

Friday, May 27, 2011

Random Treasure #20
Boxers from a Mexican board game

Monday, May 23, 2011


Random Treasure #19
from the Household Searchlight Recipe Book, 1954

Thursday, May 19, 2011

EXQUISITE CORPSE

Over the winter, I did a reading of 



at the Cornwall Library and afterwards did a collage workshop. I had a wonderfully talented and eager group of kids ages 3-13 (and a couple of equally talented and eager moms who could not resist the scissors and paper). Together we worked on a group of exquisite corpse. In case you're not familiar with exquisite corpse, let me explain... You begin with a piece of paper divided into 3 equal parts. At the very top third, the first person creates a head leaving off at the neck and then folds over the paper or securely covers (we used a piece of cardboard and LOTS of paperclips) their drawing, or in this case collage, so that the next person has no idea what the first person has created.  The next person creates the torso of the figure leaving off at the hips in the middle third of the paper. Now both the head and the torso are securely covered and the third person creates the legs and feet in the bottom third of the paper. 
When everyone is finished, the exquisite corpse is revealed!
The  results were amazing and I had to share them. 
Thank you Marina, Iris, Soledad, Ella, Micah, Abby, Elsie, Olive, Chiara, Sophie, Plum, Nicole, Emilie & Amy!