Women of Marwencol

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Published by The Esopus Foundation Ltd., 2014. Format: Custom slipcase with booklet and 6 removable 27-by-36-inch posters.

This edition, created for Esopus premium subscribers in 2014, featured six stunning recent images (reproduced as full-color 27 x 36" posters) by Mark Hogancamp encased in a booklet within a custom-designed slipcase. The images featured in the edition, which depict a number of the female inhabitants of Mark Hogancamp's one-sixth scale fictional town Marwencol—originally featured in Esopus 5 (2005)—ranging from Hogancamp’s mother, Edda, to the “Belgian Goddess of Youth” Deja Vu, and represented some of his strongest, most beautiful work to date.

In conjunction with the release of the edition, Esopus co-presented an exhibition of Hogancamp’s work at Pioneer Works Center for Arts and Innovation in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The exhibition, Women of Marwencol, featured large-scale prints of the images reproduced in the Esopus edition along with other photographs curated by Janet Hicks, director of One Mile Gallery in Kingston, New York.