The Last Sentimentalist: a Q. & A. with Duane Michals

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The Last Sentimentalist: A Q. & A. with Duane Michals

Michals talks to Siobhan Bohnacker about his early work, and about his dream-like portraits of Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, and Andy Warhol.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/sandbox/portfolio/michals-empty-ny/

The photographer Duane Michals is perhaps best known for his “fictionettes”: dream-like stagings in which Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, and Andy Warhol have all appeared. These enchanting photo sequences and montages, which are often accompanied by Michals’s handwritten prose, make innovative use of the medium’s ability to suggest what cannot be seen

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