Eros and Thanatos

Eros and ThanatosIn our fourth book of Duane Michals's work, the artist explores classic themes of love and death through photographs and words. The evocative images and poems collected in Eros & Thanatos conjure memories of love and loss, lust and longing, in what is perhaps the most revealing and overtly sensual of Michals's works to date. The full richness of Michals's imagery emerges from these exquisite, large format sheet fed gravures. twin palms publishers

225 four color plates

he has returned with haunting pictures of the plains and desert

There is something very strange about walking into a recently abandoned office

dejected elderly

looking through the bars at another prisoner

they take on an added mystery that is enhanced by constant reminders of their frailty

creating a sadomasochistic story

vacationed together in Provincetown and Fire Island

100 gravure plates

I think about thinking and am beyond the comfort of conformity

and fashion pictures comprise this selection from his most famous images and lesser-known and often unpublished work

And he used these simple