Duane Michals
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QuoteDuane Michals (b. 1932, McKeesport, PA) is one of the great photographic innovators of the last century, widely known for his work with series, multiple exposures, and text.
Michals first made significant, creative strides in the field of photography during the 1960s. In an era heavily influenced by photojournalism, Michals manipulated the medium to communicate narratives. The sequences, for which he is widely known, appropriate cinema’s frame-by-frame format. Michals has also incorporated text as a key component in his works. Rather than serving a didactic or explanatory function, his handwritten text adds another dimension to the images’ meaning and gives voice to Michals’ singular musings, which are poetic, tragic, and humorous, often all at once.
Over the past five decades, Michals’ work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, hosted Michals’ first solo exhibition (1970). In 2019, The Morgan Library and Museum in New York exhibited a career retrospective of Michals' work The Illusions of the Photographer: Duane Michals at the Morgan. More recently, he had one-person shows at the Odakyu Museum, Tokyo (1999), and at the International Center of Photography, New York (2005). In 2008, Michals celebrated his 50th anniversary as a photographer with a retrospective exhibition at the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece, and the Scavi Scaligeri in Verona, Italy.
In recognition of his contributions to photography, Michals has been honored with a CAPS Grant (1975), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1976), the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Art (1989), the Foto España International Award (2001), and an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Mass. (2005).
Michals's work belongs to numerous permanent collections in the U.S. and abroad, including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Michals's archive is housed at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
Monographs of Michals' work include Homage to Cavafy (1978); Nature of Desire (1989); Duane Michals: Now Becoming Then (1990); Salute, Walt Whitman (1996); The Essential Duane Michals (1997); Questions Without Answers (2001); The House I Once Called Home (2003) Foto Follies / How Photography Lost Its Virginity on the Way to the Bank (2006); 50 (Admira Photography, June 2008); a collection of Michals’s writing (Delpire Editeur, Fall 2008); and his Japanese-inspired, color photographs (Steidl, Fall 2008).
Michals received a BA from the University of Denver in 1953 and worked as a graphic designer until his involvement with photography deepened in the late 1950s. He currently lives and works in New York City.
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US Vogue September 1976
"The New York Collections: American Fashion at the Top of It's Form: Racy, Freewheeling...Casual!"
Models: Mary Maciukas, Yasmine Sokal, Beverly Johnson, Lisa Cooper, Pat Cleveland, Lisa Taylor, Melanie Cain, Chris Royer, Patti Hansen, Janice Dickinson & Alva Chin
Photographer: Duane Michals
Hair: Harry King
Makeup: Joey Mills
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US Vogue October 1976
"Saint Laurent: The Romance That Shook the World"
Models: Kirat Young, Donna Palmer & Unknowns
Photographer: Duane Michals
Hair: Alexandre
Makeup: Paco
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US Vogue October 1976
"The Way it Was...at Dior, Givenchy, Valentino"
Models: Kirat Young, Donna Palmer & Unknowns
Photographer: Duane Michals
Hair: Alexandre
Makeup: Paco
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US Vogue December 1976
"The Assurance of Dreams"
Models: Kirat Young & Unknowns
Photographer: Duane Michals
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US Vogue December 1976
"The Prince of Flash!"
Models/Subjects: Warren LeRoy & Kay LeRoy
Photographer: Duane Michals
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US Vogue September 1985
"Out in Front: The Many Styles of a Successful Woman"
Models: Donna Karan, Jacqueline de Ribe, Jackie Robers, Carolina Herrera, Gloria Sachs, Mary McFadden, Khadija Adams, Ariane Koizumi, Renata Vacková & Unknowns
Photographer: Duane Michals
Hair: Hamid
Makeup: Andrea Paoletti
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US Vogue November 1979
"The One-Man Comedy Explosion: Robin Williams/Lisa Eichhorn/Richard Gere"
Models/Subjects: Robin Williams, Lisa Eichhorn & Richard Gere
Photographer: Duane Michals
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US Vogue August 1980
"Jong Triumphant"
Model/Subject: Erica Jong
Photographer: Duane Michals
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US Vogue August 1980
"The New Working Style... In Beauty"
Model: Charly Stember
Photographer: Duane Michals
Hair: Didier Maligé, Garren & Edward Tricomi
Makeup: Wendy Whitelaw & Bonnie Maller
WARNING: Nudity (page 4)
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US Vogue December 1980
"Eternal Allure"
Photographer: Duane Michals
WARNING: Nudity
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US Vogue September 1986
"Art as Risky Business"
Models/Subjects: Xavier Fourcade, Williem de Kooning, Raoul Hague, Malcolm Morley, Catherine Murphy, Joan Mitchell & Dorothea Rockburne
Photographers: Duane Michals & Denis Piel
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US Vogue December 1972
"A Great Year for Halston"
Models: Lynn Woodruff, Roy Halston, Paula "Pola" Klimak, Karen Bjornson, Emanuelle Dano, Apollonia van Ravenstein, Unknown, Shelley Hack, Pat Cleveland, Denise Hopkins, Unknown & Anjelica Huston
Photographer: Duane Michals
Hair: Suga
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US Vogue December 1972
"The Genius of George Balanchine - Balanchine's Fourth Dimension: His Eye and Mind Transform Sound Into Sight"
Models/Subjects: Karin von Aroldingen, George Balanchine, Allegra Kent, Jean-Pierre Bonnefous, Melissa Hayden, Edward Villella, Peter Martins, Helgi Tomasson, Jacques d'Ambrose, Sara Leland, Violette Verdy, Francisco Moncion, Kay Mazzo & Gloria Gavin
Photographer: Duane Michals
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US Vogue August 1st, 1972
"Living the Loft Life"
Models/Subjects: Sylvia Stone, Rosemarie Castoro, Nancy Graves & Susan Crile
Photographer: Duane Michals
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US Vogue August 1st, 1972
"What Women Know About Love That Men Don't Know About Loving: An Interview with Juliet Mitchell"
Model/Subject: Juliet Mitchell
Photographer: Duane Michals
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US Vogue August 1st, 1972
"Surprise: The Young Really Life Their Parents Now"
Photographer: Duane Michals
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US Vogue July 1972
"Europe Discovers America's Avant-Garde: The Excitement of the New Physical Theater"
Models/Subjects: David Warrilow, JoAnne Akalaitis, Ruth Maleczech & Joan Jonas
Photographer: Duane Michals
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US Vogue June 1972
"Naomi Sims, Super Model: “Beauty Surpasses Prejudice”"
Model: Naomi Sims
Photographers: Berry Berenson & Duane Michals
Hair: Shin
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US Vogue April 1st, 1972
"Fashion Personalities: Mrs. George A. Plimpton"
Models/Subjects: George A. Plimpton & Freddy Plimpton
Photographer: Duane Michals
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