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Diana Michener: Twenty Eight Figure Studies
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This book is suited for readers interested in artistic explorations of human intimacy, photography, and contemporary art that challenges traditional depictions of sexuality. It appeals to those appreciating abstract and expressive black-and-white imagery.
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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 models for this book but ultimately decided to photograph stills from pornographic films. She transforms the hyperreality of the sex industry, its tarnished coloured gloss, into something more ambiguous, timeless, and expressive.
The figurative forms of sex are often (just) recognisable in Michener's black-and-white pictures: a kiss, breasts, entangled limbs; but just as often, they are not. Bodies are simplified and blurred, seeping into abstraction and darkness, hinting at yet never embracing explicitness.
In images both graphic and impressionistic, Michener's self-declared goal steadfastly remains "to transform into the visual what is emotional and mental."
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Critics praise this work for elevating intimate and raw acts into touching art without voyeurism. Linda Zhengov of GUP Magazine highlights Michener's success in addressing life's ecstasy through these images. Sarah Sunday of Provokr notes the photographic stills as brazen yet emotionally aware portrayals of human intimacy, while L'Oeil de la Photographie acknowledges the graphic but impressionistic style that transforms emotion into visual form.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9783869308968
Publisher: Steidl Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 November 2020
Country: Germany
Imprint: Steidl Verlag
Illustration: 28 Illustrations
Contributors:
- Designed by Gerhard Steidl
- Designed by Duncan Whyte
- Designed by Duncan Whyte
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 270.0mm
Height: 240.0mm
Weight: 580g
Pages: 60
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About the Author
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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