The Photograph Commands Indifference
Photographs & text by Nicholas Muellner
Design by Gerry Beegan
84 pages, 66 illustrations
Soft cover, 5.25 x 6.75 inches
Photographs & text by Nicholas Muellner
Design by Gerry Beegan
84 pages, 66 illustrations
Soft cover, 5.25 x 6.75 inches
ISBN 0-9777655-3-9
ISBN 13: 978-0-9777655-3-9
Edition of 500/ OUT OF PRINT
Retail: $20
Edition of 500/ OUT OF PRINT
Retail: $20
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.
Release date: January 2009. Shipping now!
Release date: January 2009. Shipping now!