Welcome to Marwencol / Mark Hogancamp & Chris Shellen.

  • Hogancamp, Mark
Date:
[2015]
  • Books

About this work

Description

After being brutally attacked outside a bar and recovering from a coma and extensive physical injuries, Mark Hogancamp suffered brain damage and nearly total memory loss. Unable to afford therapy he spent the next few years building a scale model, World War II-era town, Marwencol, populated with dolls, where he lived out his fantasy life, and which he documented in photographs. When his photographs were discovered by an art magazine, a New York gallery invited him to show his work, forcing him to choose between his self-contained world and the larger world from which he had retreated.This book includes a selection of his photographs.

Publication/Creation

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2015]

Physical description

255 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition

First edition.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

Mark's story. First life ; The attack ; The trials ; Recovery ; Discovery -- Inside Marwencol. Process ; the town ; Characters -- Marwencol stories. Crash landing ; The rules of town ; The SS find Marwencol ; The prisoner ; a new beginning ; Dahlia ; The giant of Marwencol ; Deja Hogancamp.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    ZH.R
    Open shelves

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Identifiers

ISBN

  • 9781616894153
  • 1616894156