The essential Duane Michals / Marco Livingstone.
By: Livingstone, Marco [author].
Contributor(s): Michals, Duane [author].
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Thames and Hudson, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 224 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0500542147 (hardback); 9780500542149 (hardback).Subject(s): Michals, Duane | Photography, Artistic | Portrait photography -- United StatesDDC classification: 779.092 MICItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 779.092 MIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00231217 | ||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A collection of the works of American photographer Duane Michals, an innovative and influential artist who has reinvented the medium as an instrument of thought and emotion rather than simply an instrument for recording the visible world. Using works from his entire career, the photographs are grouped together according to the themes that have preoccupied him, rather than on the basis of chronology or formal resemblances.
"The biography is adapted from the note by Marco Livingstone in the exhibition catalogue Duane Michals: Photographs/Sequences/Texts, 1958-1984, published by the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England in 1984"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-223) and index.
Messages -- Encounters -- Human dependency -- The imagination -- Overpainted photographs -- Magic and illusion -- Time and memory -- Innocence and experience -- Mortality -- The spirit -- God -- The unknown -- Politics -- Desire -- Self-image -- Colour photographs and commercial work -- Portraits -- Verifying reality -- Biography -- Awards and public collections.
"Since taking his first pictures four decades ago, Duane Michals has established himself as an artist who has reinvented the medium of photography from an instrument for recording the visible world to an agent of thought and emotion. Michals has made use of all the tricks of the camera and darkroom--including double-exposure, blurred movement and photomontage--in order to construct images that provide his visions with the veracity of a witnessed event. From the 1960s he began to supplement photographs with texts and to create narrative sequences of images. Highly influential among photographers, these innovations have led to other inventive strategies: texts without photographs, or photographs paired with drawings or obscured in paint. But formal and technical considerations have never become an end in themselves; rather they have served Michals's need to communicate themes of growing subtlety and to express his ideas on such matters as the spirit, mortality, desire, human relationships, politics, time and memory. The works brought together in this book--whether commissioned or made for himself, and whether previously unpublished or already familiar to his admirers--demonstrate the rare ability of an artist to be freed of all restraints and preconceptions while remaining always true to himself." - Jacket.