Book Launch for Michael Schmelling’s The Plan

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According to the official statement on the book, The Plan, by Michael Schmelling:
“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.”

I attended the reading and presentation of this book last night at Family (book store) in Los Angeles. (more…)