Duane Michals (born February 18, 1932) is an American photographer. Largely self-taught, his work is noted for its innovation and artistry. Michals' style often features photo-sequences and the incorporation of text to examine emotion and philosophy, resulting in a unique body of work. Duane Michals emphatically defines himself by what he is not, saying first and foremost that he is not a photographer. “I am an expressionist and by that I mean I’m not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.” Michals never learned traditional photographic methods, and that lack of education has contributed, he believes, to his success. In his own words, he never had to “unlearn” anything and was therefore always free to be different.
Duane Michals “The House I Once Called Home” is a series in which Michals traveled back to his the home he lived in when he first started to get into photography. When he arrived there he soon learned that it was going to be torn down because it was completely decrepit. We are both revisiting places from earlier years. His work is comparing how it used to be just like I am. However, mine is holding something else because I am rephotographing the people as well to show how they have changed.
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http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~karlpeter/zeugma/inters/michals.htm
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http://www.pacemacgill.com/duanemichals-4-1.html
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