Magritte with Hat (1965)

Magritte with Hat (1965)
Photographer: Duane Michals

"I was lucky because I never went to photography school and I didn't learn the photography rules. And in not learing the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or your redefine the medium in terms of your needs."

Duane Michals

The Illuminated Man (1968)

The Illuminated Man (1968)
Photograph
Duane Michals


“How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.”
- Duane Michals

Things are Queer (1973)

Things are Queer (1973)
Photographer: Duane Michals
Nine silver gelatin prints with hand applied text. (Köln: Ann and Jürgen Wilde, Zülpich, 1973).

Duane Michals (born February 18, 1932) is an American photographer.[1] Michals's work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy.

Awards:

Honorary Fellowship of The Royal Photographic Society, 1991.
Gold medal for photography, National Arts Club, 1994.
Masters Series Award, School of Visual Arts, 2000.