Sequential Imagery Research part I

 Duane Michals

              

                        Things Are Queer
                                1973
Nine gelatin silver prints with hand-applied text
                        3 3/8 x 5 inches. 

                                                          Source: Dc Moore Gallery.

  Duane Michals (b.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.                                         Michals first made significant, creative strides in the field of photography during the 1960s. In an era heavily influenced by photojournalism, Michals manipulated the medium to communicate narratives. The sequences, for which he is widely known appropriate cinema`s frame-by-frame format.                                                                                                               

               

Death Comes to the Old Lady 

                                                                                               1969

         Five gelatin silver prints with hand-applied text 

                                                                                   3 3/8 x 5 inches (each image)       

                                                                                    Source: Dc Moore Gallery.

  Duane Michals as seen by 

    "Michal`s work is almost as autobiographical as, for example, Lartigue`s work, but radically different: it doesn't surprise the moment, it creates it. Unlike the youthful Lartigue patiently positioned at the end of the boulevard alleys to capture the elegant look in full attire, Michals never pays attention to body movements: he provokes the film and the movements through it. soul. To this end, it uses model, professional or not, complex technical scientific staging procedures. - Renaud Camus. Searching and watching Michals's work I liked how he crates sequences of images that explore intangible human dilemmas - doubt, mortality, and desire. How he derives poetic effects from technical errors such as double exposure and motion blur. I will try to use them in my work.                                                                     

                                                                                   

                                                                                                      

                                                                                        The Fallen Angel
                                                                                                1968
                                                                   Eight gelatin silver prints with hand-applied text
                                                                                5 x 7 inches (each image) 

                                                                                 Source: Dc Moore Gallery.

References

Duane Michals as seen by Renaud Camus. [Online] Available from:

https://pl.frwiki.wiki/wiki/Duane_Michals

 Things Are Queer 1973; Death Comes to the Old Lady 1969; The Fallen Angel 1968
 Galeria DC Moore Gallery [Online] Available from:

https://www.dcmooregallery.com/artists/duane-michals/series/sequences