Eros & Thanatos
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1992. 1st Edition. Folio, publisher’s black cloth, spine and upper board gilt, photo-illustrated label mounted to upper board, black endpapers, original black cloth slipcase gilt.
Signed limited first edition artist’s book by photographer Duane Michals, published by Twin Palms Publishers. Michals began his career taking frequent portrait assignments from Harper’s Bazaar, and in the mid-1960s began exploring sequences of staged, narrative photos in his personal work. From there it was a short step to what has become recognized as his signature style–multi-frame still images with philosophical or humorous musings scrawled on them. A meditation on life and death and love and loss, Eros & Thanatos pairs 43 large-format gravure plates with evocatively written texts and sensual poems rendered in his hand. Number 19 of 100 signed and numbered copies in slipcase, from a total edition of 5000. Fine. Item #11704
$275.00