illusions of the photographer - duane michals at the morgan

new, shrink wrapped In the exhibition 'illusions of the photographer - duane michals at the morgan', the Morgan Library continues its series of incisive photography shows Michals is now in his seventh decade of active work His subjectstime, God, age, love, and paradise, among themare big and universal He delivers them mostly in small, enigmatic, and often spooky black-and-white photographs, augmented by his handwritten comments Since the early 1960s Duane Michals has been known for photographic sequences and inscribed photographs that explore emotional, conceptual, and cosmic topics beyond the grasp of the lone camera image Born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, in 1932, the elder son of a millwright and a salesclerk, he won a scholarship to attend the University of Denver Having enrolled in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, after graduating in 1953 he served as a lieutenant in an armor unit in Germany for two years He moved to New York City in 1956 to work for magazines and began photographing two years later on a trip to the Soviet Union, using a camera borrowed from a friend In 1960 he met Fred Gorre, an architect; for fifty-seven years they shared a home on East Nineteenth Street and a country house, and they married in 2011 From the start Michals has kept his art free of financial pressure by pursuing a parallel career, photographing corporate ad campaigns, assignments for fashion magazines, and portraits of artists and celebrities Since 2015, working with writer and director Josiah Cuneo and a small cast crew, Michals has created short films, that build on the comedic and contemplative themes of his photographs and writing Fred Gorre died in the summer of 2017 after seven years with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's A few weeks later Michals began working with the Morgan's Richard L Menschel Curator, Joel Smith, on an exhibition combining work from the Morgan's collections.

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ISBN: 087598195X

ISBN-13: 9780875981956

Publisher: The Morgan Library & Museum

Year: 2019

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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