Duane Michals: Portraits

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A dazzling collection of Duane Michals's portrait photography, featuring never-before-published images of some of the greatest actors, musicians, artists and writers of the past fifty years

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Duane Michals has long been recognized for his inventive photo sequences, which shaped the work of several generations of artists. But even as he enjoys wide acclaim, a central body of work by the eighty-five-year-old artist remains little known. For decades, Michals was a sought-after editorial photographer for leading magazines, in which he portrayed many of the outstanding creative personalities of our era, including Tilda Swinton, Johnny Cash, Robin Williams, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, René Magritte and Jasper Johns.

This comprehensive selection of his revealing portraits – many not previously published in book form – acompanied by Michals’s inimitable, sometimes hilarious, observations and reminiscences, will delight his fans and engage his new admirers.

Extent: 176 pp
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2017-11-09
Size: 24.5 x 29.5 cm
ISBN: 9780500544877
Subjects include: Johnny Cash, Eartha Kitt, The Mamas and the Papas, Barbra Streisand, Tom Waits, John Cassavetes, James Coburn, Robert Duvall, Joel Grey, Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Hopper, Jeremy Irons, Hildegarde Knef, Veronica Lake, Michael Richards, Meryl Streep, Donald Sutherland, Tilda Swinton, Liv Ullmann, Robin Williams, George Balanchine (and NYC Ballet principals), Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Balthus and Setsuko, Charles and Bertha Burchfield, Joseph Cornell, Edward Gorey, Mary Frank, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, René Magritte, Alice Neel, Richard Tuttle, Andy Warhol, Authors: John Ashbery, John Cheever, E. L. Doctorow, Lillian Hellman, Stephen King, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth and more

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Spectacular
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Idiosyncratic and visually inventive
Royal Photographic Society Journal



About the Author

Duane Michals was born in McKeesport, a suburb of Pittsburgh, where he took studio art classes at the Carnegie Institute. He received a BA from the University of Denver and attended Parsons School of Design in New York City. Michals’s photographic career commenced in 1958, when he travelled to Russia with a borrowed camera and made portraits of people on the streets. Over the following decades, he worked as a freelance photographer for magazines including Vogue, Esquire, Mademoiselle and Life, doing fashion photography and portraits. Michals was made an Officier in France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1993, and he was honoured with the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Art, in 1989, and the Foto España International Award in 2001. He lives and works in New York City.

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