Thursday, February 18, 2010

Photographing the Homes of Hoarders: Michael Schmelling, The Plan




A photo book published by Photo Eye Bookstore.
The Plan.

Photographs by Michael Schmelling. Text by Richard Maxwell.
J&L Books, 2009. 576 pp., 490 black & white illustrations, 6¾x9".

Publisher's Description

Between 2003 and 2005, Michael Schmelling photographed 12 private residences in the company of Disaster Masters, a New York-base
d company specializing in cleaning up homes and counseling compulsive hoarders. Featuring 490 photographs printed in black-and-white on 576 newsprint pages, this volume devotes one chapter to each home-producing an arresting art object and a fantastic document of urban archaeology and psychology.

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