Duane Michals
The Illuminated Man
1968
Image: 15 5/8 x 22 7/8 inches. Sheet: 20 x 23 7/8 inches, unique print
Gelatin silver print
Purchased on the Photography Collectors Committee Fund.
2018.37
© Duane Michals, Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York.
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Summary
Upper body of a man whose head is covered in rays of light.
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Contemplative, confessional, and comedic, the art of Duane Michals exerts an appeal that transcends the conventional audience of photography. Since the early 1960s, Michals has worked past what he sees as the limitations of the camera: he writes in the margins of his prints, creates sequences of images that explore intangible human dilemmas (doubt, mortality, desire), and derives poetic effects from technical errors such as double exposure and motion blur.