Diana Michener: Dogs, Fires, Me

By Ofer Lellouche

Dogs, Fires, Me is Diana Michener's ballad to the light that passes through film to register a world of people and objects that speak as if in dreams. Michener's elegiac photographs map a phenomenological world, a terrain of untilled ground where emotions accumulate in a story without narrative. Many images reappear in unexplained variations, particularly self-portraits which suggest that the self-contained corporeal entity is the primordial filter for all experience. In the words of the artist, "I want to illuminate the human condition. I think all my work really has to do with wonder: a wonder at the incredible insistence of the human organsim to survive."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3865211232
• ISBN13: 9783865211231
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.8" x 8.8"