Research in artist: Duane Michals

American  Duane Michals (born February 18, 1932) is an innovate and creative photographer. In his early years, he like painting and poetry, but subsequently became a freelance photographer working in New York. He is a symbolic photographer, which create a lot of work related to Life and death, reality and illusion. He uses a lot of image sequences to express his concept and ideas to examine or explain the human emotion and philosophy question.

Duane Michals's work:

Chance Meeting, 1969, Duane Michals

Things Are Queer, 1973, Duane Michals

Dr. Heisenberg’s Magic Mirror of Uncertainty, 1998 by Duane Michals

the boogeyman, Duane Michals

spirit leaves the body (1968), duane michals

Andy Warhol, 1972,  duane michals

Analysis:

Duane Michals’s photo sequences work is very innovative. These photo sequence work use a set of images, put them in an order to explain a concept or story.

In many case, Michals’s sequences work are about life and death and that is why his works are mysterious, vague with some translucent elements.

Perhaps life is a loop, run though different stage, scene and time sequences.

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