Diana Michener: Mirror

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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600 images newly scanned from Michener's archive, Mirror covers her work from 1975 to 2021 and includes many as yet unpublished images.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 uvre 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.

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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 her retrospective "Silence Me" at the Maison Europene de la Photographie in Paris in 2001. Her books with Steidl include the award-winning Dogs, Fires, Me (2005), 3 Poems (2006), Sweethearts (2009), Figure Studies (2011), A Song of Life (2018), Trance (2020), Twenty-eight Figure Studies (2020) and Bones (2022).