3 Poems celebrates the expressive relationship between black and white and color in the work of the artists Jim Dine. The photographs and the poems can be read separately and collectively and this beautiful volume invites the viewer to explore the distinct rhythm of both elements and their lyrical overlapping. Co-published with Bose Pacia Gallery, New Delhi
Diana Michener's "Bones" showcases her photographic preservation of bones as treasures, inspired by 19th-century photography. Using platinum prints from analogue film, she captures both human and animal bones from various museums, often in restricted areas. The book evokes an antique album feel, highlighting the significance of bones as remnants of life.
Mortes presents Diana Michener’s reflections on the mystery of death. In three visual chapters focused on different themes, Michener explores her complex relationship to her subject: one of terror and wonder, of scientific fact and the inexplicable, of reverence and acceptance. The first chapter “Heads” shows the heads of cows slaughtered at an abattoir. Fascinated by the ambivalent relationship between the body and spirit, Michener records the intense moment of death. In “Foetus” she documents a collection of deformed nineteenth-century foetuses preserved in formaldehyde in glass jars, capturing what she calls “a terrible beauty in their silence and stillness.” In the final and most confronting chapter “Corpus,” Michener turns her lens upon us, photographing human corpses during autopsy. She touches on our unease with the brute physicality of death while conveying her admiration for the human body as a magnificent construct, as impressive in life as in death. Printed in quadratone on 175gsm mold-made Somerset Book paper from St. Cuthberts Mill, UK
I saw what I saw, and then, all particulars fell away and there was vastness and an immense eternity. - Diana Michener Mirror is a sweeping retrospective of Diana Michener's photography, encapsulating her ongoing journey in the medium across the decades. In three volumes and over 600 images newly scanned from Michener's archive, Mirror covers her work from 1975 to 2021 and includes many as yet unpublished images. Michener presents her oeuvre in lyrical chapters, each exploring a specific theme and including portraits (of friends, strangers, herself), landscapes, still lifes (of Greco-Roman sculpture, mannequins, bones), visual diaries of her travels, and re-enactments of myths such as Narcissus and Leda and the Swan. Short personal texts by the photographer open each chapter, taking us through her memories and giving insight into the images we would otherwise miss.