Duane Michals
By: coordinación, Blanca de la Válgoma
Contributors: Válgoma, Blanca de la, editor; Fundación Mapfre; Centro José Guerrero; Museo Ettore Fico
Publisher: Fundación MAPFRE
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Madrid
Language: spa; eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9788498446364
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Exhibitions
Work titles: Photographs
Description: An artist in balance between photography and poetry, Duane Michals (McKeesport, Pennsylvania, 1932) is one of the most prestigious names of North American avant-garde. In the sixties, he created a new approach to photography, which did not intend to document facts or "truth", but to deal with metaphysical aspects of life. Through very personal work of extraordinary originality, Duane Michals has blurred the line between photography and other disciplines, such as poetry or painting. He has become one of the artists who has renewed photographic language with great intensity over the past sixty years. In an age marked by photojournalism, he rejected the limitations of this trend, and became closer to cinematic storytelling, by using carefully formed photographic sequences. Likewise, he crossed the limits of the means, by incorporating handwritten texts on his developed copies which add a deeper dimension to his photographs. With uncomplicated technique and lighting, and meticulous set design, his work approaches the major questions of the human being, often through play and irony. He also uses these elements to construct his portraits, in which he tries to reflect not only the physical aspect of the models, but more their identity and the elements that characterize them best. Whatever the means and the subject addressed, the personality, concerns and the sense of humor of Duane Michals overflow in all his works.--Fundación MAPFRE website.
Notes: "Fundación MAPFRE, Casa Garriga i Nogués, Barcelona, mayo-septiembre de 2017, Centro José Guerrero, Granada, enero-abril de 2018, Museo Ettore Fico, Turín, mayo-septiembre de 2018."

Chiefly illustrated.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-319).