Michael Prior
Melbourne: Prior Art, 2019.

A short compendium of photo-alchemical works chronicling the photographer’s passage toward the void. The final published work by experimental photographer Michael Prior documenting the effects of advanced myeloma on his body through alternative photographic processes. The works are arranged into three themes: Shades of the Alchemist; Garden Images. The Premonitory Return to Nature; The Hospital Room and its Uncanny Inhabitants. Each image has an accompanying commentary relating to the individual image as well as the broader themes, technical and philosophical, which underlie their creation. An accompanying exhibition was held at Fox Darkroom & Gallery, 16 February – 3 March 2019. Prior passed away in May of that year. Preface by Ellie Young. Editing by Dr Dianne Clifton and Richard Freadman. Elegantly bound by Nikola Doslov of Renaissance Bindery. Unrecorded in OCLC or Trove. This copy inscribed by Prior.