Diana Michener

For Diana Michener, bones are treasures, and this book is her preservation of them through photography in a way that honours 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...

For many years, Diana Michener desired to photograph the horizon, yet hesitated. How to capture this defining feature of the landscape that is strangely elusive, a line which marks where earth and sky only seem to meet? Then, two years ago, Michener took up an 8 × 10 analogue camera and felt drawn to the landscape outside Walla Walla, Washington,...

How to represent sex as a place of ecstasy rather than pornography? How to transcend the unavoidable physicality of the sexual act, sometimes tender, sometimes violent, to reach what Diana Michener calls "the place of communion ... the unknown, the cosmic"? Diana Michener: Twenty Eight Figure Studies explores these themes with a unique artistic approach. Michener initially considered depicting live...