A Practical Guide To… is a handmade, hand-bound collaborative book beginning with Chapter 1: Mycology, written, photographed, and designed by Áine Carr. Content for all other chapters was created by and belongs to each artist named respectively. This copy of the book was printed, bound, and covered by hand by Áine Carr. all information in A Practical Guide To… is presented as valid information, but combines real photography with fake, farcical information and facts. All pages of Mycology: Chapter 1 were inspired by my wild mushroom identification photography series.
all information in A Practical Guide To… is presented as valid information, but combines real photography with fake, farcical information and facts. All pages of Mycology: Chapter 1 were inspired by my wild mushroom identification photography series. I have been photographing and cataloguing fungi species in the mid-atlantic region for about 3 years. Fungi identification is an amateur passion project of mine where I am mostly utilizing google and online forums as references, so it seemed a good place to apply tongue-in-cheek fake facts to my photography. Here are some of the actual documentations that inspired this collaborative book chapter.
crown-tipped coral mushroom
*I’m still not certain about this idenitification but it looks like a sulfur-shelf mushroom (Laetiporus gilbertsonii).
wood ear or tree ear mushroom
red-capped amanita
red-capped amanita
Hemlock shelf mushroom
puffball mushroom
ghost pipe mushroom
fairy tale mushroom
champignon mushroom
looks almost like a false death cap mushroom, but it lacks the rounded cap that usually is associated with that species. This one has a flatter and very highly textured cap that is cream colored rather than off-white or green-white.
bracket fungus
sulpher shelf mushroom, chicken of the woods