Research Catalog

Title

Storyteller : the photographs of Duane Michals / Linda Benedict-Jones ; with contributions by Allen Ellenzweig, Marah Gubar, Adam Ryan, and Aaron Schuman ; with additional texts by William Jenkins, Max Kozloff, and Enrica Viganò.

Publication

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Musem of Art ; Munich ; London ; New York : DelMonico Books, Prestel, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Benedict-Jones, Linda
• Ellenzweig, Allen
• Michals, Duane.
• Carnegie Museum of Art host institution.
• Peabody Essex Museum host institution.

Description

239 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm

Summary

A self-taught photographer, Duane Michals broke away from established traditions of the medium during the 1960s. His messages and poems inscribed on the photographs, and his visual stories created through multiple images, defied the principles of the reigning practitioners of the form. Indeed, Michals considers himself as much a storyteller as a photographer. Accompanying a major traveling retrospective of his work, this book features Michals’s best-known early sequences, 'The Spirit Leaves the Body', 'Paradise Regained', and 'Chance Meeting' - as well as works from later in his career such as 'The Bewitched Bee' and 'Who is Sidney Sherman?' Penetrating essays situate Michals within the history of 20th-century photography, explore the artist’s images of sexual identity and sensuality, examine his legacy today, and address the childlike aspects of his work - a theme that has never been widely examined. An annotated timeline of Michals’s biography includes rare archival materials and provides a unique glimpse into his life. Wide-ranging and timely, this volume offers a fresh appraisal of a popular artist who continues to create moving and experimental works that speak to a broad and evergrowing audience.

Subjects

• Exhibition catalogs
• Storytelling > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• Michals, Duane > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Presented at the exhibitions at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh on November 1, 2014-February 16, 2015 ; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, March 14-June 21, 2015.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-235) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Duane Michals: storyteller / Linda Benedict-Jones -- Wounded by beauty / Allen Ellenzweig -- This is a real dream (1974) / Interview by William Jenkins -- Unsettling sentimentality: scrapbooks, children's books, and the assembled narratives of Duane Michals / Marah Gubar -- Duane Michals speaks with Enrica Viganò (2001) / Interview by Enrica Viganò -- Lessons learned: three encounters with Duane Michals / Aaron Schuman -- Plates -- Duane Michals, the impossible animist (2013) / Max Kozloff -- Commercial work / Linda Benedict-Jones -- Chronology of the life of Duane Michals / Adam Ryan.

ISBN

• 9783791353708
• 3791353705

LCCN

^^2014007700

OCLC

875403894

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library