The Photograph Commands Indifference - Softcover

Nicholas Muellner; Gerry Beegan (designer)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977765539 ISBN 13: 9780977765539

Publisher: A-Jump Books, Ithaca, NY, 2009

Synopsis

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.

The Photograph Commands Indifference consists of text and photographs by Nicholas Muellner.

About this title

About the Author

Nick Muellner is a photo-based artist, writer and curator who lives and works in Ithaca, NY. The Photograph Commands Indifference follows his seminal exhibition and artist s book Moscow Plastic Arts. In addition to solo and group exhibitions in New York and Philadelphia, Muellner has collaborated on curatorial projects and multi-media works, including Now Is The Winter, an exhibition of politically and psychologically linked works by U.S. and Russian artists that opened at Proekt_Fabrika in Moscow in May 2007. Muellner s creative and curatorial projects have been reviewed in Artforum, The New York Times and The New Yorker, among other publications, and his critical writings, often focusing on Russian and American photographic practice, have recently been published in Art Journal and by Rutgers University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: A-Jump Books, Ithaca, NY
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0977765539
• ISBN 13: 9780977765539
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 84