1. Duane Michals

2. Biography
• American, 1932 - present
• Noted for sequential images
• Dealt with myths/mysteries
• Took classes at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh
• Attended University of Denver
• 1956 Parsons School of Design after military service, trained
as Graphic Designer
• 1958 Went to Soviet Union and made portraits of people on
streets
• Worked as freelance photographer for Vogue, Esquire,
Mademoiselle and LIfe Magazines doing fashion
photography and portraits

3. Work
• Interest in street happenings led him to make single
documentary images of the “social landscape.”
• Later began to address literary and philosophical
ideas about death, gender, and sexuality.
• Staged scenes to be photographed and worked with
multiple exposures, sequences, and series.
• Combined text and drawings with his images.

4. Girl Asleep Being Observed, ca. 1970s

5. The Human Condition (sequence), 1969

6. Untitled, 1968

7. He stood there in the shadows 2006

8. Two Old Men
Talking 2005

9. Cavafy Cheats Playing Strip Poker 2004

10. A Poet Decorates his Muse with Verse 2004

11. Who is Sidney Sherman? 2000

12. The Most Beautiful Part of a Man’s Body 1986 Young Men Dream in the Garden of the Dead with Flowers I Build A Pyramid 1978
Growing From their Heads 1995
Joseph Cornell 1972 Rene Magritte (Easel) 1965
Willem deKooning 1985

13. Honk Honk 2007 Forty-three eggs and five feathers 2007
The Skinny Dipper’s Song 2008 It is Fate 2008
Ondine’s Hair 2008 Luxe, Calme et Volupte 2008