Thomas Mailaender – THE FUN ARCHEOLOGY Magazine in accordance with the secret

in accordance with the secret affinity between portrait and self-portrait

Using a basic point-and-shoot camera

using dogs

The series Ardennes was created over time and throughout several trips

text contributions and a selection of 17 printed recipes as inserts in the book

Thomas Mailaender – THE FUN ARCHEOLOGY Magazine in accordance with the secretDesigned as an artist book The Fun Archaeology presents the collection envisioned by French artist Thomas Mailaender. Over more than a decade he gathered thousands of originals documents found on flea markets, websites, charity sales or car boot sales. A wide range of materials going from war letters to pornography, family photo album to political leaflet, anonymous work to artists proofs. By sequencing this body of images Mailaender creates a very