Duane Michals
BA, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER, 1953
Duane Michals (b. 1932), a self-taught photographer, was one of the transformative figures, along with Jerry Uelsmann, whose work received wide notice after being shown at the Art Institute of Chicago by Hugh Edwards (1968), at MoMA (1970), at George Eastman House by Nathan Lyons (1971), and at LIGHT Gallery by Harold Jones (1974).6
During the mid-1960s, Duane Michals shifted from photographing single enigmatic moments, as in his unpeopled sites of Empty New York, to invented sequential images that wrestle with inner dramas. This evolution reflects a shift from public to private ...
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