Maker of Enigmatic Images Dies at 94
Duane Michals, one of the 20th century’s most important photographers, known for making sequences of images that conveyed enigmatic narratives and defied the conventions of the medium, died on Tuesday, June 9, at 94, in a Manhattan hospital. The news was confirmed by DC Moore Gallery, which had represented him since 2013. “A person of immeasurable intellect, charm, wit and kindness, Duane always questioned the many paths of the human condition and through his art pointedly captured what is not always readily seen nor spoken,” DC Moore director Edward De Luca told ARTnews in an email. “His six decades of art making, including the most recent short films he posted on the internet, have proven Duane’s message to be both universal and timeless.” Related Articles If an image could be worth a thousand words, Michals proved that a series of his photographs could be worth a thousand stories. In turning to the medium of photography, he showed that a single image could never be enough to say it all. Instead, Michals paired together multiple photographs—sometimes …
