The Amnesia Pavilions
Photographs and text by Nicholas Muellner
220 pages, 81 color illustration, 31 black & white
Perfect-bound softcover, 8 x 7.5 inches
Photographs and text by Nicholas Muellner
220 pages, 81 color illustration, 31 black & white
Perfect-bound softcover, 8 x 7.5 inches
ISBN 978-0-9777655-8-4
Edition of 500
Retail: $30
Edition of 500
Retail: $30
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.
Release date: October 1, 2011
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.
Release date: October 1, 2011