• Book cover of 'The House I Once Called Home' by Duane Michals with a black and white photograph of a house.
  • Open book showing endpapers featuring an enlarged vintage-style postcard of a bridge and cityscape of McKeesport at night, featuring illuminated buildings and a river.
  • Open book autographed by Duane Michals, with a hand holding it on a white background
  • Open book showing a title page of 'The House I Once Called Home' by Duane Michals, with black and white text and a photograph of a house on a white background
  • Open book showing a black and white photograph of DUANE MICHALS in a forest.
  • Open book with black and white photographs and hand-written text by Duane Michals on a white background
  • Open book with black and white photographs and hand-written text by Duane Michals on a white background
  • Open book showing a black and white photograph of a forest by DUANE MICHALS.
  • Open book with black and white photograph and hand-written text by Duane Michals on a white background
  • Open book with a vintage black and white portrait photograph of two boys and hand-written text by Duane Michalst on a white background
  • Open book with a black and white photograph and hand-written text by Duane Michals on a white background
  • Open book with black and white photographs of a woman sitting on a chair and text on a white background
  • Open book with a black and white photograph of a garden and a woman holding a kitten by DUANE MICHALS.
  • Open book with handwritten text and a black and white photo of a bold man writting on a wall on a white background
  • Open book showing a black and white photo of a hand holding sand by DUANE MICHALS.
  • Open book with text and a black and white photograph of a wildflower growing in an abandoned house on a white background
  • Rear book cover of "The House I Once Called Home' by Daune Michals, with black and white photograph of a bridge over water and text.
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THE HOUSE I ONCE CALLED HOME by Duane Michals [2003] - SIGNED

THE HOUSE I ONCE CALLED HOME by Duane Michals [2003] - SIGNED

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Enitharmon Editions, London, 2003 | Hardcover, unpaginated [c. 52pp] | 22 x 27.5 cm | Limited First Edition of 3,000 | Signed by the Artist

A hauntingly personal photographic memoir from Duane Michals, one of the most distinctive voices in American photography. Returning to his childhood home in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Michals interweaves black-and-white images of empty rooms, streets, bridges and remembered spaces with handwritten verse, building a meditation on family, memory and the ghosts of time.

The book opens with vintage postcards of McKeesport and a facsimile of Michals’ hand, setting the tone for an intimate, layered narrative. The house itself becomes both archive and reliquary: “this abandoned wooden box is the cabinet where my family’s curiosities are stored.” Through his characteristic blending of photography and text, Michals reanimates the past, blurring the lines between elegy, autobiography and fiction.

Published in a first edition limited to 3,000 copies, this copy has been signed by Duane Michals on the half-title page. Enitharmon’s production is characteristically fine: clean design, crisp reproductions and a subtle interplay of image and typography.

Very good condition: Slight surface and edge wear to paper-covered boards. Spotting to title label pasted on front cover. Pages clean and unmarked, with a hint of age-tanning along the edges. Binding tight.

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