Ebook: Welcome to Marwencol
Author: Hogancamp Mark, Shellen Chris
- Tags: Action figures (Toys), Barbie dolls, Brain damage--Patients--Rehabilitation, Dolls in art, G.I. Joe figures, Imaginary places in art, Military miniatures, Models and modelmaking--Therapeutic use, Photography Artistic, Victims of violent crimes--Rehabilitation, World War 1939-1945, Biography, Pictorial works, Comics (Graphic works.), Comics (Graphic works), Hogancamp Mark, Marwencol (Motion picture : 2010), Models and modelmaking -- Therapeutic use -- Pictorial works, Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
- City: New York
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
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.;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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