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THE BEST BOOKS OF 2009

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The Plan.
Photographs by Michael Schmelling. Text by Richard Maxwell.

J&L Books.

Between 2003 and 2005, Michael Schmelling photographed 12 private residences in the company of Disaster Masters, a New York-based 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.

A choice of one of six 8x10" c-prints printed and Also includes a copy of the book signed by the artist.

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