The Amnesia Pavilions. Nicholas Muellner. A-Jump Books.

Posted in photography on October 11th, 2011
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The Amnesia Pavilions. Nicholas Muellner.

The Amnesia Pavilions, Nicholas Muellner’s stunning new book of textual and visual autobiography, takes as its central narrative his return trip to a small city in Eastern Siberia after a seventeen-year absence. Traveling back to Ulan-Ude in the fall of 2009, Muellner set out to find a close friend whose trail had run cold. Guided (and haunted) by the extensive photographic and written material produced on his earlier journeys, as well as reflective chronicling of his futile retracings, this book considers the impossibility of tracking down and understanding one’s former self. Along the way, this autobiographical safari also serves as a framework for viewing the massive cultural and socio-economic change that has transformed provincial Russia.

The Amnesia Pavilions argues for the incommensurability of the past and the present, and examines photography’s personal, vernacular and historical role in both bridging and broadening the temporal chasm of understanding.

Published by A-Jump Books
220 pages
81 color illustration, 31 black & white
Perfect-bound softcover
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-9777655-8-4

D 26€

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The Photograph Commands Indifference

Posted in Motto Berlin store, photography on August 10th, 2010
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The Photograph Commands Indifference, Nicholas Muellner

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.

Publishd by A-Jump Books, Edition of 500.

D 16€
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