For eighty years—eight decades—he gave it his all, selecting his own (mostly unknown) images and writing his own texts. He loves to write and he does it well. As a protean artist, Duane has played many characters in his life. That’s only natural for someone who claims that photography is nothing but a lie.
Tag: Duane Michals
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Happy Birthday Duane Michals
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Duane Michals: Heart of the Question
Duane Michals: Heart of the Question
Art should be vulnerable, says Mr. Michals, who believes that images should be about what something feels like as well as what it looks like.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/duane-michals-heart-of-the-question/
Jimmy Nelson is about to release Before They Pass Away, a massive book—both physically and thematically—that’s the result of three-and-a-half years spent documenting vanishing cultures. In what is perhaps the most comprehensive contemporary look at some of the world’s last remaining tribes, the book chronicles Nelson’s experiences photographing 35 populations that have neither adapted to the modern world, nor shown a desire to join it.
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Duane Michals : The Unknown Portraits – The Eye of Photography
Duane Michals’s poetic body of work, celebrated for its existential series, is filled with portraits shot both on commission and as part of his personal exploration of the genre. However, they represent only a small part of his oeuvre, appearing here and there in books and magazines. The current exhibition at the DC Moore Gallery in New York is taking a look back at this less obvious facet of the American’s work through a large selection of photographs depicting famous people and the photographer’s friends and family. The mostly black-and-white images are developed from negatives unearthed from Michals’ archives. Many of them are being exhibited here for the first time.
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Quick Tip: Duane Michals on Conquering Self-Doubt | PDNPulse
Quick Tip: Duane Michals on Conquering Self-Doubt | PDNPulse
Empathetic advice for building confidence in yourself, and your work, from legendary fine art and commercial photographer Duane Michals.
via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/04/quick-tip-duane-michals-conquering-self-doubt.html
Photographer Duane Michals has had a long, successful career as both a fine artist and commercial shooter. When we asked him for a 2016 PDN story about how successful photographers overcome their self-doubt, he shared this empathetic advice for building confidence in yourself, and your work.
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Duane Michals and his Four Sorts of Photographic Portraits – The Eye of Photography
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Duane Michals: Living in the marvelous – The Eye of Photography
Duane Michals: Living in the marvelous
Working, teaching, chatting or just living: whatever he’s doing, Duane Michals is a man with a big heart—which has always made him a photographer unlike any other, totally committed to authenticity and the extraordinary
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Interview: Duane Michals on 50 Years of Sequences and Staging Photos | American Photo
Interview: Duane Michals on 50 Years of Sequences and Staging Photos
Visiting the legendary photographer who rejected the “decisive moment,” at his home studio on the occasion of a major career retrospective in Pittsburgh
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The Last Sentimentalist: a Q. & A. with Duane Michals
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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photo-eye | Magazine — 50
Spending time with Duane Michals recent book, 50, was essentially re-experiencing much of my own photographic life, having come of photographic age with his Somnambulistic period. His fascination with dreams, dreamlike states and dream-walking precedes our current interest with making connections to memories. He is whimsical, elusive, sensitive, cerebral, witty, caustic, introspective, challenging and seemly always on the move, pushing boundaries along a zigzag course of his own making.