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Archives - November 20, 2023 DC Moore Gallery in New York presents the exhibition Magritte + Warhol by Duane Michals. Photographer Duane Michals turns his eye on the legendary artists René Magritte and Andy Warhol in this exhibition of early portraits. Known for his surreal sequences and witty storytelling across media, Michals’s portraits of other artists turn the tables upon his subjects by adopting elements of their characteristic visual styles.…
Archives - April 18 2022 Duane Michals is 90. In keeping with the creativity that permeates his career, Michals’ ideas, ambitions, and interests remain limitless. Filling the gallery and bursting with color and energy, Duane Michals: Kaleidoscope presents new sculptures, paintings on paper, film, and photographs. Michals’ work continues to innovate and surprise viewers, as well as himself. His curiosity pushes him to explore the possibilities of different mediums, allowing new boundaries…
Archives - February 24, 2022 Duane Michals just turned 90. Admira his gallery in Milan and us wanted to wish him a very happy birthday by showing you these few images and this text by Enrica Viganò. "When you look at my photographs, you are looking at my thoughts." These words are the key to interpreting the entire oeuvre of Duane Michals. An oeuvre that matches his living philosophy –…
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MUUS Collection exhibits a series of collection highlights to celebrate its 10th anniversary, introducing the public to its archive and mission, at AIPAD New York. For the past ten years, MUUS Collection has brought to light 20th century photographers whose work never received the proper accolades and attention it was deserving of. Through the acquisition, conservation, and promotion of each of their estates, MUUS has brought many exceptional artists to…
“It was a lark.” That is how Ninalee Allen Craig describes the day in 1951 when she and photographer Ruth Orkin embarked on a photographic excursion through Florence that took them from the banks of the Arno to the Piazza della Repubblica. There, Orkin shot a picture that would become an enduring emblem of post-World War II femininity—and male chauvinism. Craig was 23 years old and, she said in an…
Inspired by works belonging to the world of art history that have accompanied me since adolescence, this particular bond is like that of a family of souls whose invisible family tree whispers to me to draw it. This purpose is carried out as follows: compose a setting, stylize the models, illuminate, and guide the subject in front of my lens. Photograph and work in post-production on digital files up to…
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Archives - June 8, 2020 Duane Michals never became bored during confinement. Between reading, writing, he composed the series Gipsy Rose Me, thought as a continuation of Bozo Boy on Parade, part of his film series The Corona Follies (2020). “At the beginning of the shutdown, there was an article about my 1964 series Empty New York, when once I had loved the novelty of the early morning in New York, empty of activity. And now, 56…
Archives - November 11, 2019 Coinciding with the Morgan Library & Museum’s expansive retrospective The Illusions of the Photographer: Duane Michals at the Morgan (through February 2, 2020), Duane Michals: Mischievous Eye highlights the artist’s wide-ranging curiosity and irreverent spirit with several groupings of recent works as well as selected vintage prints. In this fifth solo outing with DC Moore, Michals’ painted photographs, sequences, and self-portraits share center stage, showcasing…
Archives - June 29, 2017 The American photographer Duane Michals is the subject of a retrospective exhibition on view until September 20th at Fundación MAPFRE’s Casa Garriga i Nogués exhibition space in Barcelona. 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. Love of…
Archives - March 11, 2015 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…
We learned yesterday of the passing of Duane Michals. There is so much to say about Duane, and yet, why should we? His images speak for themselves, for him; beyond the legendary photographer, he was a poet, a surrealist one who invited us for decades in his world where we, at turns, could be amused, surprised, challenged but always touched. Today, exceptionally, to pay tribute to Duane there will be…
Archives - February 21, 2012 Born February 18, 1932 in McKeesport Pennsylvania, Duane Michals called Margaret and John, Mum and Dad. Everyone called him Sonny. Attending Holy Trinity School, he was a good Catholic, who believed every lie the Church taught and was a good boy. He delivered the Pittsburgh Post Gazette every morning. Thus his adventures began. Duane Michals
Archives - February 21, 2012 At McKeesport High School, Sonny was the news editor of The Red and Blue. During his fifteenth summer, Duane Michals found his way to Amarillo, Texas with Jimmy Connelly on a Greyhound bus. There they hitchhiked up to the Oklahoma panhandle to work on the wheat crops. Alas they were too small. Having received a scholarship from the University of Denver, Sonny who was then…
Archives - February 21, 2012 During the Korean War, Sonny became a second lieutenant in armor when he was a green twenty-one and luckily exported to Deutschland. The alternative Korea certainly would have been his great goodbye. Now a civilian again, Duane Michals was hired at TIME, Inc. as a graphic designer. On a lark, Duane went to Russia, as a tourist, with a borrowed camera and found his bliss,…
Archives - February 21, 2012 Being indecisive Duane Michals became frustrated with the decisive moment and began telling his own stories, thus inventing sequences. Suddenly a one man exhibition at MoMA, amazing! By 1965, Sonny was knocking at the door of the Wizard of Brussels, René Magritte. Yes, he did exist. Sonny’s life was changed yet again. Now being frustrated by the stillness of still photography, Michals began to add…
Archives - February 21, 2012 Simultaneously while doing his personal photography, Sonny always made his living as the most unprofessional professional photographer – no agent, no studio, no staff (except for a freelance assistant), and no overhead. He did covers for LIFE, TIME, Newsweek, Fortune, Mademoiselle, The Police Synchronicity album, “Paris Collection” for Vogue, New York Times Annual Report, everything that came his way, and all with enthusiasm and great…
Archives - February 21 , 2012 Having liberated himself with language, Michals published many books, but his crown jewel was Questions without Answers, his most philosophic book. He also published a children’s book. A book about Egypt for Denoel of Paris, a Walt Whitman salute plus one for Cavafy, and a story about his old Mckeesport birthplace, The House I once Called Home for Enitharmon Press, London. Duane Michals
Archives - February 21, 2012 With a grant from Paris Audiovisuel, Duane Michals did a series of charming fables about the City of Lights, couture, l’amour, cuisine, literature, Josephine Baker meeting Toulouse, Toklas meets Stein. Next a tale of Quantum and Metafisica for Clara Sels, Dusseldorf, and a satire on contemporary photography, Foto Follies/ How Photography Lost its Virginity on the Way to the Bank for Steidl in Germany under…
Archives - February 21, 2012 Always inspired by things Japanese, Sonny produced fan shape photographs in color in the manner of Hokusai and Hiroshige with Haiku poetry. Duane Michals now has returned to his early passion, painting on photographs with oils, hands on, the touch of the maker, the exquisite vulnerability of imperfection, the elegance of a single line meandering on a surface through space and time. Duane Michals
Archives - June 11, 2021 The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow presents the exhibition ‘Our True Intent Is All for Your Delight’. Eminent photographer, member of the legendary photo agency Magnum, curator and collector Martin Parr rediscovers the work of John Hinde’s Irish photo studio, which changed our attitudes to postcard art forever. The exhibition features photographs by Elmar Ludwig, Edmund Nägele and David Noble, who worked at the studio in…
Archives - June 11, 2019 Keith de Lellis Gallery features the mid-century work of Italian photographer Nino Migliori (b. 1926) in this summer's exhibition. Self-taught, Migliori began making photographs in 1948, documenting his familiar and beloved Italy as it emerged from the second world war. The artist traveled throughout his homeland, from the impoverished south to the more affluent and industrial northern regions, capturing the people with the affection and…
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