{"product_id":"john-miller-middle-of-the-day-volume-4-walther-konig-2018","title":"JOHN MILLER, The Middle of the Day, Volume 4, Museum im Bellpark \/ Walther König, 2018","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished by Museum im Bellpark, Kriens \/ Cabinet d'arts graphiques, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva \/ Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, in 2018, \u003cem\u003eThe Middle of the Day, Volume 4: I Don't Have a Social Life, Nobody Ever Invites Me to Go Anywhere, and Nobody Ever Drops by to Visit or Hang Out\u003c\/em\u003e is the fourth instalment of John Miller's ongoing photographic series begun in 1994. Softcover, card wrappers, English. 44 pages, 20 colour photographs. 15 × 16 cm. ISBN 978-3-96098-489-4.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe series is governed by a single condition: every photograph is taken between noon and 2 pm. Miller originally chose the period because it was his least favourite time of day. The resulting archive has no consistent visual subject — streets, objects, interiors and strangers connected only by an invisible temporal coordinate. The photograph cannot prove the condition that qualifies it for inclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished for Miller's 2018–19 exhibition \u003cem\u003eComedy of Manners\u003c\/em\u003e at Museum im Bellpark, Volume Four returns to the series fourteen years after the third publication and contains twenty recent colour photographs. By then, the status of casual photography had radically changed: disposable images had become embedded within ordinary social communication. The project therefore operates less as documentation of particular places than as a system for assigning significance. The image remains ordinary. The rule changes its status.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fine \/ new, still sealed in original shrink-wrap. Light rubbing and creasing to the protective plastic from storage; publication beneath appears unread and well preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead our journal entry on \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/journal\/the-new-rare-at-glue-book-fair-2026\"\u003eThe New Rare at Glue Book Fair 2026\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54696596439378,"sku":null,"price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Miller_John.TheMiddleoftheDayVolume4.2019.jpg?v=1789198854","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/john-miller-middle-of-the-day-volume-4-walther-konig-2018","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}