{"person":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"2903"},"lastName":{"label":"Last Name","value":"Hogancamp"},"endDate":{"label":"Death Date","value":"0"},"displayName":{"label":"Name","value":"Mark Hogancamp"},"objects":{"label":"Objects","value":[{"objectTitle":"Untitled, from Marwencol series","objectNumber":"2021.19.11","objectID":"8111"},{"objectTitle":"Mother's Day, from Marwencol series","objectNumber":"2021.19.10","objectID":"8110"},{"objectTitle":"Untitled, from Marwencol series","objectNumber":"2021.19.13","objectID":"8113"},{"objectTitle":"Dej\u2019Alaqua Montique Hogancamp!!, from Marwencol series","objectNumber":"2021.19.12","objectID":"8112"},{"objectTitle":"mwcHeart, from Marwencol series","objectNumber":"2021.19.2","objectID":"8102"},{"objectTitle":"Alaqua Nazi Spies, from Marwencol series","objectNumber":"2021.19.1","objectID":"8101"},{"objectTitle":"Picture 526 marwencol, from Marwencol series","objectNumber":"2021.19.5","objectID":"8105"},{"objectTitle":"Untitled, from Marwencol series","objectNumber":"2021.19.3","objectID":"8103"},{"objectTitle":"The DREAM after P-40. Ernie Pyle, from Marwencol series","objectNumber":"2021.19.7","objectID":"8107"},{"objectTitle":"Untitled, from Marwencol series","objectNumber":"2021.19.6","objectID":"8106"},{"objectTitle":"Mark Cries, from Marwencol series","objectNumber":"2021.19.9","objectID":"8109"},{"objectTitle":"Hogie and Deja reach Marwencol, from Marwencol series","objectNumber":"2021.19.8","objectID":"8108"}]},"geographyDied":{"label":"Died","value":"Kingston"},"biography":{"label":"Biography","value":"Staged with incredible detail in handmade sets or outdoors amidst the nature of upstate New York, Mark Hogancamp\u2019s photographs portraying scenes in the fictional World War II\u2013era town of Marwencol, Belgium, have a cinematic quality. There are visceral episodes of violence on blood-spattered snow, dramatically lit intimate encounters, and moments of daily life as a large cast of characters, ranging from soldiers to heroic local women resisting the occupying Nazis, play out an evolving narrative. Often working at a 1:6 scale, Hogancamp poses dolls and props and constructs buildings with scraps of wood and found materials so that they appear uncannily lifelike in his vivid color photographs. Many feature his tenacious alter ego, the American fighter pilot Captain Hogie, whom he initially created as a way to process the trauma of a brutal attack that nearly killed him.Hogancamp was born in 1962 in Newburgh, New York, and worked as a carpenter and served a stint in the Navy. In 2000, he was severely beaten by five men outside a Kingston, New York, bar after he revealed his love of cross-dressing. Following five days in a coma, he spent almost two months in the hospital, relearning every aspect of his life. Before the assault, he had been a passionate sketcher, but his injuries made drawing impossible. Building and photographing the miniature world of <em>Marwencol<\/em> became a creative outlet and a sanctuary of healing, where, with blood made from nail polish and reimagined Barbie dolls and action figures, he was able to be empowered in his recovery. As he stated in a 2019 Sotheby\u2019s interview, \u201cAfter the attack left me feeling as though I was being kicked off the planet, I wanted to build my own world that only I would understand.\u201dHis work was first published in 2005 in the art magazine <em>Esopus<\/em>. The 2010 documentary <em>Marwencol<\/em>, the 2015 book <em>Welcome to Marwencol<\/em>, and the 2018 feature film <em>Welcome to Marwen<\/em> brought his work to international attention. Although his focus has shifted away from wartime violence in recent years, he continues to expand and develop the world of Marwencol with its always-growing cast of characters still having more stories to tell.Allison C. Meier, 2025Text written as part of \u201cRethinking Biography,\u201d an initiative supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)."},"geographyActive":{"label":"Active","value":"Kingston"},"geographyBorn":{"label":"Born","value":"Kingston"},"beginDate":{"label":"Birth Date","value":"1962"},"firstName":{"label":"First Name","value":"Mark"},"primaryMedia":{"value":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/25853/full"},"names":{"label":"Names","value":"Mark Hogancamp"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"(b. 1962)"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"167143"}}]}