Duane Michals

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Empty New York
Duane Michals
Gebundene Ausgabe: 224 Seiten
Verlag: Enitharmon Editions
Sprache: Englisch

"From the moment the Pennsylvania-born Duane Michals (born 1932) settled in Manhattan in 1956 with the intention of studying graphic design, the metropolitan environment in which he found himself exerted a powerful spell on his creative imagination. Having discovered his vocation for photography in 1958 while on holiday in the USSR, in 1964-65 he began to document New York City in a tantalisingly unfamiliar guise, virtually empty of inhabitants at dawn or dusk. In deeply evocative black-and-white images he depicted storefronts and interiors; deserted stations, subway cars, funfairs and arcades; derelict markets, vacant theatres and diners. Already the hallmarks of his mature style were apparent: a fascination with the sequencing of his images as a way of establishing a narrative, an understanding of the emotive power of locations as sites of epiphany, an instinctive ability to frame the subject within the view-finder and to draw out its atmosphere from the available natural lighting, and a concentration on incidental details and amusing juxtapositions. He soon recognised the potential of these locations as stage sets for the human dramas that he began to make a few years later and on which his reputation as an artist was to rest. It is no exaggeration to say that through his Empty New York images, only a very few of which have been published or exhibited before, he discovered his voice as an artist photographer whose work is full of poetry, philosophical ruminations and a yearning for spiritual and even mystical fulfilment. Day after day Michals would rise at dawn to capture unpeopled sidewalks, bridges and parking lots, architectural fragments, the Hudson River, cityscapes in the mist, skyscrapers and urban nature reflected in the puddles of Central Park. Beautifully realised and now achingly nostalgic, the photographs in Empty New York show us the city frozen in time, just as Eugène Atget, one of Michals’ heroes, commemorated Paris in the early years of the twentieth century. As much social history as photographic reportage, Duane Michals’ pictorial poem reminds us with every frame how he has earned his place among the greats of American photography." (Amazon)

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"Duane Stephen Michals (* 18. Februar 1932 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania) ist ein US-amerikanischer Fotograf. Weitgehend Autodidakt, sind seine Arbeiten bekannt für ihre Innovationskraft und Kunstfertigkeit. Michals arbeitet oft mit Fotosequenzen und der Einbeziehung von Text, um Gefühlsregung und Lebensanschauung darzulegen, was sich in einem einzigartigen Ergebnis niederschlägt.

Michals wuchs in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, auf. Im Jahre 1953 machte er den „Bachelor of Arts“ an der University of Denver. Nach seinem Wehrdienst begann er 1956 ein Studium an der Parsons School of Design, mit der Absicht Grafik-Designer zu werden, jedoch schloss er das Studium nicht ab. Während eines Urlaubs in der Sowjetunion im Jahr 1958 entdeckte er sein Interesse an der Fotografie. Aus den Fotografien, die er während dieser Reise machte, entstand seine erste Ausstellung im Jahre 1963 an der U-Galerie in New York City.

Einige Jahre lang arbeitete Michals freiberuflich, unter anderem für den Esquire und Mademoiselle. Während der Dreharbeiten zu The Great Gatsby im Jahr 1974 fotografierte er für Vogue. Da er kein Fotostudio besaß, machte er Porträts von Menschen in ihrer Umgebung, was im Gegensatz zur Arbeitsweise anderer Fotografen dieser Zeit, wie Richard Avedon oder Irving Penn, stand.

Im Jahr 1968 wurde Michals von der mexikanischen Regierung beauftragt die Olympischen Sommerspiele 1968 zu fotografieren. Im Jahre 1970 wurden seine Werke erstmals in einer Einzelausstellung im Museum of Modern Art in New York City gezeigt. Die Porträts, die er zwischen 1958 und 1988 machte, bildeten die Grundlage für sein Buch „Album“.

Im Jahr 1976 Michals erhielt ein Stipendium des National Endowment for the Arts. Michals gestaltete auch das Cover für das Album Synchronicity von The Police im Jahr 1983 und Richard Barones Album „Wolken über Eden“ im Jahr 1993. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie DGPh hat Duane Michals 2017 in Köln den Kulturpreis verliehen." (Wikipedia)

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Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals
Gebundene Ausgabe: 240 Seiten
Verlag: Prestel
Sprache: Englisch

"Accompanying a retrospective of the pioneering photographer, this volume of more than 75 original works will thrill Duane Michals aficionados, while introducing younger viewers to an innovative artist who redefined the role of the photograph in artistic expression. A self-taught photographer, Duane Michals broke away from established traditions of the medium during the 1960s. His messages and poems inscribed on the photographs, and his visual stories created through multiple images, defied the principles of the reigning practitioners of the form. Indeed, Michals considers himself as much a storyteller as a photographer. Accompanying a major traveling retrospective of his work, this book features Michals’s best-known early sequences, The Spirit Leaves the Body, Paradise Regained, and Chance Meeting—as well as works from later in his career such as The Bewitched Bee and Who is Sidney Sherman? Penetrating essays situate Michals within the history of 20th-century photography, explore the artist’s images of sexual identity and sensuality, examine his legacy today, and address the childlike aspects of his work—a theme that has never been widely examined. An annotated timeline of Michals’s biography includes rare archival materials and provides a unique glimpse into his life. Wide-ranging and timely, this volume offers a fresh appraisal of a popular artist who continues to create moving and experimental works that speak to a broad and evergrowing audience." (Wikipedia)

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Duane Michals: Portraits
Gebundene Ausgabe: 176 Seiten
Verlag: THAMES & HUDSON
Sprache: Englisch

"Duane Michals: Portraits presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of more than a half-century of portrait photographs—many of iconic cultural figures—by one of our era’s most influential and entertaining artists.Duane Michals, the subject of a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Carnegie Museums in 2014 and scheduled to travel in 2018, has long been recognized for his inventive photo sequences, which shaped the work of several generations of artists. But even as he enjoys wide acclaim, a central body of work by the eighty-five-year-old artist remains little known.For decades, Michals was a sought-after editorial photographer for leading magazines, portraying outstanding creative personalities of our era. This comprehensive selection of his inventive portraits—many not previously published in book form—accompanied by Michals’ inimitable, sometimes hilarious observations and reminiscences, will delight his fans and engage new admirers. The book features intimate and illuminating images of musical performers such as Barbra Streisand and Johnny Cash; actors from Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams to Tilda Swinton; contemporary artists including Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and Jasper Johns; authors such as Norman Mailer and John Cheever; and “old masters” of modern art including René Magritte and Balthus." (Amazon)

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ABCDuane: A Duane Michals Primer
Gebundene Ausgabe: 184 Seiten
Verlag: The Monacelli Press
Sprache: Englisch

"The legendary photographer relates intimate themes of his life and art in a scrapbook memoir illustrated by his works - from portraits of Magritte to Warhol, to painted tintypes, and the revolutionary multiple-image sequences and handwritten texts for which he is best known - and by pieces from his personal art collection, now donated to Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art.

Whether a portrait of Eugène Atget by Berenice Abbott, collages by Joseph Cornell, or drawings by David Hockney, the works of Michals’s artistic lodestars sit alongside his own haunting images - some never-before-published - and his mordantly funny, playful, humble, and heartbreaking observations on art, photography, and life - revealing the creative obsessions of a uniquely beloved artist.

The images and texts by Duane Michals assembled here are, like the artist himself - impossible to categorize; perhaps there is no better way to organize them than alphabetically. Whether recalling encounters with many of the past century’s most illustrious artists (Balthus, Duchamp), celebrating literary heroes (Whitman, Joyce), addressing essential human concerns (Grief, Children’s Stories, Homosexuality, God), or revealing deeply personal snippets of life with a partner suffering from dementia (Fred Said) - ABCDuane is a creative autobiography and the perfect primer for Michals’s vastly influential body of work - both for those who have loved it for the past half-century, and those being delighted by it for the first time." (Amazon)

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The Essential Duane Michals
Marco Livingstone
Gebundene Ausgabe: 224 Seiten
Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
Sprache: Englisch

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Photo Assignment: Photo Sequences




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Duane Michals - Now Becoming Then




Duane Michals en Nonstoppeople