Duane Michals

Known for his works with series, multiple exposures, and texts, Duane Michals made strides in the field of photography in the 1960s which was heavily dominated by photojournalism. Like the image below, Michals tends to create an image based off a series of images mashed up together in a frame by frame format, and it’s through his hand written text that adds another level of dimension and intimacy to the photos themselves. Likewise, this is illustrated quite well with the image below where each frame tells a different emotion though the mirror’s alteration of the model’s face. We aren’t necessarily presented with the model’s face head-on, but what we see are reflections that are warped and distorted.

Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman was known for her black and white portraits during her career as a photographer. Many of her works revolved around symbolic motifs such as birds, skulls, and mirrors. In this particular picture below, we can see a level of surrealism, especially with how out of focus and blurred out the subject is. In a way it resembles that of a spirit/ghost, capturing something that sort of exists there and doesn’t, and framing it in a way that it occupies a gray area in terms of existence.