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Lacuna Park : essays and other adventures in photography / Nicholas Muellner.

First edition.

London : SPBH Editions, 2019.

xi, 205 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 20 cm

Lacuna Park is a collection of written and visual essays by the influential American photographer, writer and curator Nicholas Muellner, best known for his photobooks 'The Amnesia Pavilions' (named one of Time magazine's best photobooks of 2011) and 'In Most Tides an Island'. The essays gathered here intertwine personal accounts, historical and contemporary criticism, fictional narrative and philosophical inquiry to ask: what is existentially at stake in the making and viewing of photographs? Created between 2009 and 2019, these writings reflect a decade of epochal shifts in the technologies and contexts of image-making: the growth of smartphones and the ascendance of social media, and the resulting transformations in visual and social culture. This innovative collection traces that historical evolution in image-making through Muellner's idiosyncratically emotional, humorous and melancholic visual and textual modes. Above all, in these critical and philosophical works, Muellner never abandons the position of the photographer: that person who marks their place in the world--as lover, citizen, artist and witness--by the optical device they hold in their hands.
"Lacuna Park contains all of Muellner's writings on photography. In addition to five new and previously unpublished essays, the collection includes selections published in now out-of-print and hard-to-find works, including a complete reprint of Muellner's 2009 book The Photograph Commands Indifference."--Publisher's description
"'Lacuna Park' collects writter-photographer Nicholas Muellner's textual and visual essays created between 2009 and 2019. Intertwining memoir, reportage, fiction and theory, he asks: what is existentially at stake today in the making and viewing of photographs? In a time when nearly everyone has become a photographer, Muellner explores how, through images, we control and care and desire, adapt and compensate, forget, remember, and keep going."--Printed paper wrapper, page 4.

Nicholas Muellner (born 1969, Washington, D.C.): MFA (Photography), Tyler School of Art, Temple University ; B.A. (Comparative Literature), Yale University.

9781999814489 (paperback)
1999814487 (paperback)

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Muellner, Nicholas. Photograph commands indifference.
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