Title: The Photograph Commands Indifference
Photographer/s: Nicholas Muellner
Contributor/s: Gerry Beegan
Date of publication: January 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca, NY
Dimensions: 5.25 x 6.75 inches
Edition size: 500
Type of binding: Soft cover, perfect binding
Number of pages: 84
Type of paper: coated
Number of pictures: 66
Type of printing: 4-color offset
Printer: Eastwood Litho, Syracuse, NY
Publisher: A-Jump Books
Designer: Gerry Beegan
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-9777655-3-9
Category: artist book
Price: $20
Summary: Nicholas Muellner’s new book is a personal, historical, and philosophical inquiry into the relationship between photographs and monuments. Built around alternating densities of text and image, each of the thirteen chapters approaches the subject from a different starting point, ranging from reconsiderations of art-historical works, to 1960s era snapshots of monuments in the former Soviet Union. At root, The Photograph Commands Indifference considers the proposition that both photographs and monuments attempt to stop, or restore, the terrible racing away of meaning from subject and presence. As such, Muellner questions the impulse to create material facts from the fundamentally abstract processes of desire and loss that characterize memory.
Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 1969, Washington, D.C.
Website: http://www.nicholasmuellner.com/Nicholas_Muellner/home.html
Book link: http://www.a-jumpbooks.com/Muellner_Indifference.html
Donated by: A-Jump Books
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