When east coast photographer Nick Muellner set out for the arid basins of southeast Utah, he brought with him a book by the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov. And when Muellner’s photographs turned out stranger than he expected, he found himself trying to crack open Nabokov’s perfectly constructed literary images.
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