His work was poignant, provocative and sometimes sentimental, flying in the face of the dominant photographic aesthetics of the time. The works in Storyteller include Michals' classic sequences from the early 1970s as well as rarely seen images from later in his career.īorn in 1932 and raised in a steelworker family in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Michals broke away from established traditions of documentary and fine art photography in the 1960s when he added handwritten messages and poems to the prints, produced multi-image narrative sequences and experimented with double and triple exposures. The exhibition draws from select loans and the museum’s holdings, which constitute the largest single collection of Michals’ work, and span six decades. The show will be the largest presentation of this pioneering photographer’s work, and is organized by Linda Benedict-Jones, curator of photography at CMOA. Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals is a comprehensive retrospective opening on Novemat the Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA). Hillman Fund Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
DUANE MICHALS SEQUENCES SERIES
Image: Duane Michals Madame Schrödinger’s Cat, 1998 From the series Quantum, Three gelatin silver prints The Henry L.
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