Five years in the making, In Most Tides an Island is the long-awaited follow-up to Muellner’s critically acclaimed image-text books, The Amnesia Pavilions (2011) and The Photograph Commands Indifference (2009). Like those earlier works, this book profoundly intertwines language and image into an original hybrid form of photographic literature. In Most Tides an Island questions the fundamental natures of documentary and metaphor, the emotional functions of photography, and the always animate but unbridgeable space between words and pictures.