255 pages
English language
Published Nov. 3, 2016
Welcome to Marwencol
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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.
Subjects
- Marwencol (Motion picture : 2010)
- Brain damage
- Patients
- Victims of violent crimes
- Therapeutic use
- Artistic Photography
- Rehabilitation
- Pictorial works
- Models and modelmaking