In 2000, Michael Bach quit taking photos, for good, or so he believed. After graduating from the Yale School of Art, Bach had spent two decades as a teacher and a landscape photographer until he had a mental breakdown that culminated in a suicide attempt. He sold all his equipment, including his large-format camera. ‘‘I felt like a failure,’’ Bach said. ‘‘I didn’t want anything around me to remind me of photography.’’
He even threw his negatives and prints in the trash. Bach went on disability — he learned he was bipolar — and pursued work as a nude artists’ model. Around the same time, he began suffering from a neurological disorder known as essential tremors, which made holding poses difficult.
[For more of this story, written by David La Spina, go to http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06...tntemail0=y&_r=1]
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