1. DUANE MICHALS
Fotógrafo americano
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2.  Duane Michals has a long and accomplished
history of transgressing photography’s norms –
he has painted over, written on, and arranged
photographs into highly personal stories. Evoking
the passage of time, Michals’s sequenced
imagery, such as Gilles, presents arrested
moments in time, an interrupted continuity.
These tableaus of text and image make real the
invisible reality of relationships, emotions, and
fantasies. Michals has also successfully applied
his distinctive style to the very public realm of
commercial photography.
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3.  Duane Michals was born in 1932 in Pennsylvania. He
received a BA degree from the University of Denver in
1953, and since 1958 has worked as a freelance
photographer. Michals has worked extensively as a
commercial photographer; as an artist he is perhaps
best known for his sequenced black-and-white
images. Michals’ work is included in numerous
international collections; exhibition venues include
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris; the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; White
Columns, New York; and the Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York.
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4. "We are a brilliant and
unknown moment,
suspended between
memory and
anticipation, anxious
in our uncertainties,
and doomed to fade
with our
consciousness. How
can such a mystery
be photographed?“
- Duane Michals
Duane Michals Famous Quote
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5.  His role models are  Much of Michals' work
is vintage.
Walt Whitman, René
 Michals is known for
Magritte, and Balthus.
"blurring the
 He worked as a boundaries between
commercial photography and
photographer for philosophy" by creating
Esquire and visual narratives of
Mademoiselle. photography, poetry,
 In 1968, the Mexican
illustrations and text to
capture his subjects.
government hired him
 His most popular image
to photograph the
is "All Things Mellow In
Olympics. The Mind“.
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10. Dr. Duanus' famous  If there is one thing that
magic act can be said of
photographer Duane
Michals, it is this: he is
the ultimate original.
Original in thought, in
beliefs and in the
execution of his images,
Michals has succeeded in
creating a luminous
career by ignoring - in
fact, defying - the
established boundaries of
the medium. He has spent
a lifetime re-examining
and re-inventing the very
nature of the still
photograph.
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11.  Rather than describe the outward realities
that have so long fascinated
photographers, Michals has turned the
camera and his vision inward- confronting
and attempting to describe the intangible
landscapes of his own emotions, fears,
dreams and desires.
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12.  "People often ask me why I
Magritte was the person who came into
photography and took away
from it not that I was
reproducing reality as found
on the street, but I was going
into another kind of reality,"
says Michals. "When I came on
the scene as a photographer in
the early 1960's, to be a
photographer meant you could
be Ansel Adams or Garry
Winogrand or Robert Frank or
Bresson, but my whole mental
fix, the way I viewed life was
really quite different than
looking at life."
For Michals, that different view
was fueled by an insatiable
curiosity, that was not limited
to people, places or things,
but was much broader--
pondering the very nature of
existence.
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13.  "Being accepted has
Claes Oldenburg never been an issue. I
mean, it's so funny
because somehow we
always feel that people
have to work in terms
of an audience or in
terms of career and all
those things and, of
course, if you've had
the shelf life I've had, it
is a career.“
- Duane Michals
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14.  "How foolish of me to
A story about a story believe that it would be
that easy. I had confused
the appearances of trees
and automobiles and
people with 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."
- Duane Michals
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15.  While most photographers
Who am I? concern themselves with
describing the physical
appearance of the world around
them - the people, the places,
the things - Duane Michals has
devoted a lifetime to describing
the invisible and intangible world
within his imagination.
"In my case, it's been an interior
dialogue and not an exterior
dialogue. The question is: 'Who
am I?'," says Michals of his
quest. "That's what this whole
evolutionary journey has been
about, with no end in sight, and
that's why it's so exciting
because I have to define
myself."
Too many photographers, says
Michals, look no farther than the
surface, not only of the things
they photograph, but of their
own lives and emotions.
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17.  "Photographers are always photographing the
package," he says. "But they would never
think to open up the box. Well, I'm interested
in the contents, because once you start
opening up the box, it's like a Chinese box,
there's always another box inside - so it's
limitless."
"I am what is being experienced, the
universe focused in the eye of the beholder.
There is a quality of sensation felt as myself,
which like the "I" of the hurricane is a calm
center of the storm of awareness..."
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18. Time is such a funny  "Art is not fashionable.
thing That's why fashion and art
are two different things.
Fashion can never be art
because fashion deals
with whim, what is
temporary, what changes,
what is transient, what is
now and not now. Art has
to deal with issues that
are timeless, that never
change.“
- Duane Michals
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19.  Another equally ethereal
The illuminated man concept that Michals has
tried repeatedly to reveal
with his camera is the
notion of human
spirituality and
enlightenment.
"I have been interested in
spiritual things forever
and I always will be," he
says. "I'm curious about
everything. I'm curious
about physics, I'm curious
about who's speaking, I'm
curious about the very
nature of my very
existence - and that is
illumination."
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20.  Michals' contention - and the theme of
one of his more famous images "The
Illuminated Man" - is that while we all
possess the power of finding illumination,
or an enhanced consciousness, most of us
totally ignore it.
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21. A man dreaming in the  "And then I did a
city variation with a man
dreaming in the city,
too, which was, again,
at night. And I simply
did a time exposure.
There's no trick, I
mean, there's nothing
else to do. Bill Brandt
said all good
photographs have
atmosphere, I love
that, and I think that
these photographs have
their own atmosphere.’’
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24.  A master of honest and
Joseph Cornell inventive portraiture,
one of Michals' favorite
subjects are other
artists - in this case,
the creative but
reclusive genius Joseph
Cornell, famous for his
compartmentalized box
creations. Interestingly,
like many of Michals'
(and Hans Neleman's)
photos, Cornell's boxes
strung together tiny
bits and fragments of
life's experiences to
kindle much broader
emotional insights.
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26.  "Well, photographers
Primavera are always
photographing the
package. But they
would never think to
open up the box. Well,
I'm interested in the
contents, because once
you start opening up
the box, it's like a
Chinese box, there's
always another box
inside. So it is limitless.
So, my version of
reality means I believe
in the tears, I believe in
the reality of anxiety.“
- Duane Michals
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27.  "I wrote a little essay in my
Arthur in Venice portrait book called 'I'm
much nicer than my face' -
If you never saw me before
and you take one look at
this guy, and you think,
well, he's an older guy you
know nothing about me,
and and it would be
interesting to hear what
you would invent about me
- 'Who is this guy?' I'm
much more interesting than
anything you could possibly
come up with. I'm an
extremely interesting
person. You'll never see it
looking at me.“
- Duane Michals
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28.  "Photographers tend not
De Kooning to photograph what they
can't see, which is the
very reason one should
try to attempt it.
Otherwise we're going to
go on forever just
photographing more faces
and more rooms and
more places. Photography
has to transcend
description. It has to go
beyond description to
bring insight into the
subject, or reveal the
subject, not as it looks,
but how does it feel?“
- Duane Michals
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29. Self portrait as if I  "How could it be that one
were dead day I will say goodbye to
all of this and miss the
lilac spring, the May times
whistling on the wing, and
the robin's kiss? In the
summertime, when days
and evenings are in
rhyme, you will not find
me in the grove among
the lilies in repose or
weeding in the garden
path where scented
seedlings hold on fast.
When autumn falls I'll
cast no shadow on the
wall or hear the owl's
haunted hoot high above
the rotting root. When all
is orange russet red I will
not be with you in bed.
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30.  “The day the silent snow descends and
lolls to sleep all living friends, I too will
slumber in the earth among the seeds and
squirrel's birth. Who will miss me? Who
will care? When I am called and no one's
there?”
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31. ¡Gracias!
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