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Lacuna Park: Essays and Other Adventures in Photography - (Paperback)

Lacuna Park: Essays and Other Adventures in Photography - (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From his unique perspective as a writer/photographer, Muellner functions as both analyst and patient in this deep dive into the significance of pictures.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Sigmund Freud famously declared that 'every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance.' For Nicholas Muellner, the same could be said of every photograph. From his unique perspective as a writer/photographer, Muellner functions as both analyst and patient in this deep dive into the significance of pictures. <p/>-Alec Soth <p/>A quite brilliant book. I devoured Nicholas Muellner's exquisite writing and perfectly constructed stream of bright consciousness in one sitting. It is a very generous book (it is an adventure) and I suspect that every reader will appreciate the open, personal, poetic and erudite call that Muellner gives to think through the meaning of photography at this juncture in history. -Charlotte Cotton</strong></p><p><i>Lacuna Park</i> is a collection of written and visual essays by the influential American photographer, writer and curator Nicholas Muellner, best known for his photobooks <i>The Amnesia Pavilions</i> (named one of <i>Time</i> magazine's best photobooks of 2011) and <i>In Most Tides an Island</i>. <p/>The essays gathered here intertwine personal accounts, historical and contemporary criticism, fictional narrative and philosophical inquiry to ask: what is existentially at stake in the making and viewing of photographs? <p/>Created between 2009 and 2019, these writings reflect a decade of epochal shifts in the technologies and contexts of image-making: the growth of smartphones and the ascendance of social media, and the resulting transformations in visual and social culture. This innovative collection traces that historical evolution in image-making through Muellner's idiosyncratically emotional, humorous and melancholic visual and textual modes. Above all, in these critical and philosophical works, Muellner never abandons the position of the photographer: that person who marks their place in the world--as lover, citizen, artist and witness--by the optical device they hold in their hands. <p/><i>Lacuna Park</i> contains all of Muellner's writings on photography. In addition to five new and previously unpublished essays, the collection includes selections published in now out-of-print and hard-to-find works, including a complete reprint of Muellner's 2009 book <i>The Photograph Commands Indifference</i>. <p/><b>Nicholas Muellner</b> (born 1969) received a BA in comparative literature from Yale University and an MFA in Photography from Temple University. He is Associate Professor of Photography and Co-Director of the Image Text MFA at Ithaca College and the ITI Press.</p>

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