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
fear photograph
You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
corpse dream facts interested life nature photograph sleeping tells work
Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.
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.
photograph description insight
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
photography thinking photographer
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
photography writing bird
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
reality photograph
To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.
trying photograph persons
I often try to photograph things about a person that are not visible.
sunset looks photograph
I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like.
photograph
Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me
photography school grace
I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace,
photography drawing people
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
photography nikon photographer
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
photography art moving
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.