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Duane Michals is American photographer who likes to capture a series of photos and group as a narrative-sequential-storytelling in a form that is similar to cinematic sequences. He was born in 1932 in Mckeesport. After graduate from the University of Denver in 1953, he became a photo journalist. Throughout his career as a photography, he has used his way to take portrait for influential artists such as Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. He has his first solo exhibition held in MoMA. He is living in New York currently. There was an exhibition held at the Morgan Library showing his work about illusion which had ended several days ago, but we can always look for his work at MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago.

He believes that what he does not see is always more important than what he can see. He believes in the imagination. Therefore, his work, besides capturing narration of a story, he likes to put text to his photograph in order to explain his work, such as what is happening in the photograph in that certain moment, what does it smell like, what time is it. Sometimes he writes poetry, sometimes is just the narrative writing of what the observations is about his subject. “I use photography to help me explain my experience to myself,” he reflected.

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