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Research essay written up for photographer Duane Michals...

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Emmanuel DeWalt Digital Photography Prof. Adam Ryder May 22, 2018 Duane Michals My photographer that I worked on was Duane Michals who was born on Feb 18, 1932 at McKeesport, PA. Michals is considered to be one of the great photographic innovators of the last century. Duane Michals work as been shown in exhibitions in the U.S. At the Museum of Modern Arts it hosted some of Duane Michals photography in his first solo exhibition in 1970. Some more events that his photos were shown at also include the Odakyu Museum in Tokyo on the year 1999 and at the International Center of Photography in 2005. During the 1960s Duane Michals made creative strides in the field of photography. Heavily influenced by photojournalism during that era, Michals combined his photographic work with text which became a key component in his work. Duane Michals has had many well known artist to be a subject of his in his photos such as the likes of Lewis Carroll, William Blake, René Magritte, Andy Warhol and Sidney Sherman.. There was also a variety of influences from the artistic photography movement with some of the members there including Francesca Woodman and David Levinthal. There are many different pieces of Michals work out there but one that is well known is the “Things are Queer” series where he takes a photo basically showing how things aren't what they seem to be. Michals was not apart of the gay civil rights but in his photography there were some that had a gay theme to it. Though he has not been involved in gay civil rights, his photography has addressed gay themes.

The reason that I chose to do my project on Duane Michals was because I was intrigued by the mysterious and somewhat dark story that he told through his photography. The one that really stood out the most to me was Joseph Cornell, 1972 photo where he used a long exposure to capture the subject seconds after he moved to get that abstracted look to the body shape. I know something like that takes more than one shot to do but the fact that he was able to capture something so amazing like that is unbelievable. Overall Michals photography shows how creative he was when putting together his photos with the mysterious look and the expressions each subject had that made to photo have such a feeling to it....