Details

Edition

First edition.

Description

255 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Note

Includes index.

Summary

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.

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.

Subject

Hogancamp, Mark.

Marwencol (Motion picture : 2010)

Hogancamp, Mark.

Models and modelmaking -- Therapeutic use -- Pictorial works.

Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation -- Pictorial works.

Victims of violent crimes -- Rehabilitation -- Pictorial works.

Photography, Artistic.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war.

Dolls in art.

Military miniatures.

Action figures (Toys)

G.I. Joe figures.

Barbie dolls.

Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation.

Photography, Artistic.

Genre/Form

Comics (Graphic works)

Comics (Graphic works)

Pictorial works.

Added Author

Shellen, Chris,

ISBN

9781616894153 (hardback)

1616894156 (hardback)