Diana Michener

Bones

Diana Michener, Bernard Blistène, Holger Feroudj

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Steidl Verlag
31 August 2022

Individual photographers

"For Diana Michener, bones are treasures, and this book is her preservation of them through photography in a way that honors their value as vessels of lives past. Inspired by nineteenth-century photography, along with Paul Strand and Irving Penn, Michener chose the appropriately delicate and precious medium of platinum prints, which she crafted in her darkroom from analogue film shot on a Hasselblad 500 C camera. Bones recreates both the look and spirit of these prints through offset printing on Phoenixmotion Xantur paper, each image interspersed with glassine leaves to create the sense of an antique photographic album. Michener's subjects are both human and animal bones, photographed between 2018 and 2021 in collections including Luxembourg's Museum of Natural History, Strasbourg's Zoological Museum and the Musée de Cambrai-often in restricted areas, thus revealing many bones not normally accessible to the public. In her words: ""Bones bear witness to a life, and in and of themselves they show the magnificent structures of our forms. They are what is left.""

Bones are a physical trace of a soul. - Diana Michener"

By: Diana Michener
Designed by: Holger Feroudj
Text by: Bernard Blistène
Imprint: Steidl Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 380mm, Width: 280mm,
Weight: 1.180kg
ISBN: 9783969990124
ISBN 10: 3969990122
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 31 August 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Born in Boston in 1940, Diana Michener holds a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College in New York and later studied with Lisette Model at New York's New School for Social Research. Michener has exhibited internationally, including a retrospective at the Maison Européene de la Photographie in Paris in 2001. Her books with Steidl include the award-winning Dogs, Fires, Me (2005), 3 Poems (2006), Sweethearts (2009) and Figure Studies (2011) and A Song of Life (2018).

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Diana Michener

Bones

Diana Michener, Bernard Blistène, Holger Feroudj

$155

Hardback

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