![]() More recently, he had one-person shows at the Odakyu Museum, Tokyo (1999), and at the International Center of Photography, New York (2005). In 2019, The Morgan Library and Museum in New York exhibited a career retrospective of Michals' work The Illusions of the Photographer: Duane Michals at the Morgan. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, hosted Michals’ first solo exhibition (1970). Over the past five decades, Michals’ work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad. Rather than serving a didactic or explanatory function, his handwritten text adds another dimension to the images’ meaning and gives voice to Michals’ singular musings, which are poetic, tragic, and humorous, often all at once. Michals has also incorporated text as a key component in his works. The sequences, for which he is widely known, appropriate cinema’s frame-by-frame format. In an era heavily influenced by photojournalism, Michals manipulated the medium to communicate narratives. Michals first made significant, creative strides in the field of photography during the 1960s. ![]() 1932, McKeesport, PA) is one of the great photographic innovators of the last century, widely known for his work with series, multiple exposures, and text.
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