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LACY SOTO | DATE 11/16/2019

Nicholas Muellner to launch 'Lacuna Park' at Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore

Saturday, November 16 at 3 PM, Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore and SPBH Editions present the book launch for Lacuna Park: Essays and Other Adventures in Photography. Author Nicholas Muellner will present a scripted slide reading, followed by a book signing. Email bookshw-la@artbook.com or call 213-988-7413 to pre-order a signed copy with free shipping in the U.S.!
Nicholas Muellner to launch 'Lacuna Park' at Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore
Lacuna Park is a collection of written and visual essays by the influential American photographer, writer and curator Nicholas Muellner, best known for his photobooks The Amnesia Pavilions (named one of Time magazine's best photobooks of 2011) and In Most Tides an Island.

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?

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.

Lacuna Park 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 In addition to five new and previously unpublished essays, the collection includes selections published in now out-of-print and hard-to-find works, including a complete reprint of Muellner’s 2009 book The Photograph Commands Indifference.

Nicholas Muellner (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.

Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore
'Lacuna Park' Book Launch
Saturday, November 16: 3 PM

917 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Phone: 213-988-7413

Nicholas Muellner to launch 'Lacuna Park' at Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore
Nicholas Muellner to launch 'Lacuna Park' at Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore
Nicholas Muellner to launch 'Lacuna Park' at Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore
Nicholas Muellner to launch 'Lacuna Park' at Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore
Nicholas Muellner to launch 'Lacuna Park' at Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore
Nicholas Muellner to launch 'Lacuna Park' at Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore
Nicholas Muellner to launch 'Lacuna Park' at Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore

Lacuna Park: Essays and Other Adventures in Photography

Lacuna Park: Essays and Other Adventures in Photography

SPBH EDITIONS
Pbk, 5.25 x 7.75 in. / 226 pgs / 96 color / 17 b&w.

$24.95  free shipping