Duane Michals

a sequence of 3 photographs, the first signed, titled, dated, and editioned '7/25,' the second and third numbered sequentially, in ink in the margin, each annotated in pencil on the reverse, 1973 (Album, unpaginated) (3)

These photographs are in generally excellent condition. A few minuscule deposits of original retouching are visible upon very close examination in raking light. On the third print, there is a tiny accretion near the upper edge of the image. The margin edges are worn and rubbed. The right edges of the first and third prints are slightly unevenly trimmed with some attendant hairline creasing. The prints are variously numerically annotated in pencil on the reverse. Brown and white paper tape remnants along the upper and lower edges on the reverse of the prints suggest that the photographs were previously hinged together in sequence.
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