The decaying house was a metaphor for the artist’s own eventual death. It’s a topic that had recurred in the late Michals’ work, in pieces such as “Death Comes to the Old Lady” (1969), “The Spirit Leaves the Body” (1968), “A Man Going to Heaven” (1967) and “Grandpa Goes to Heaven” (1989).
The pioneering photographer talks life, death and why, in art, smaller is better
