First edition of The Photograph Commands Indifference by Nicholas Muellner. First impression. Small format softback in near fine condition. Some very minor marks to the front cover but the spine and all pages are clean and intact. Signed by the artist on the title page.
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This 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 Indifferenceconsiders the proposition that both photographs and monuments attempt to stop, or restore, the terrible racing away of meaning from subject and presence. As such, it questions the impulse to create material facts from the fundamentally abstract processes of desire and loss that characterize memory.
