Welcome to Marwencol
By: Mark Hogancamp & Chris Shellen
Contributors: Shellen, Chris, author
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781616894153
Subjects: Marwencol (Motion picture : 2010); Brain damage; Patients; Victims of violent crimes; Therapeutic use; Artistic Photography; Rehabilitation; Pictorial works; Models and modelmaking
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.
Notes: Includes index.