Duane Michals
Duane Michals
Duane Michalsis an American photographer. Michals's work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth18 February 1932
CountryUnited States of America
believe eye focus
The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
believe invisible i-believe
I believe in invisible; I do not believe in visible.
believe reality quiet-voice
I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the intuition and the imagination and the quiet voice inside my head that says: isn't that extraordinary? The things in our lives are the shadows of reality, just as we ourselves are shadows.
believe people looks
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.
believe imagination vision
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
confused believe reflection
How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
work
I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer.
absolutely commercial five museum seconds shows survive work
There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything.
face great magic people powers reproduce seeing takes
Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.
photography witty memories
If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into Rue Mimosas, looking for the house of Rene Magritte. It was August, 1965. I was 33 years old and about to meet the man whose profound and witty surrealist paintings had contradicted my assumptions about photography.
use painting boring
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
art air people
The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
photograph description insight
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
helping terrible rhyme
I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.