Research - Duane Michals

Duane Michals is a american photographer, who was born in February 1932. He self taught himself. He works in sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy. he has shot everything from life covers, to fashion spreads for vogue magazine to annual reports for the new york times. He was influenced by robert Frank and Rene Magritte. Duane Michals is one of the few photographers where his equipment is inconsequential. He couldn't care less about what film or camera he is using. He is interested in the things he cant capture with his camera. He is greatly influenced by the surrealists and his pictures are mostly in black and white, they often have a dreamlike quality. They are naive in the sense they look like old fashioned photographs. His big themes that he does are 'death, love, family, spirituality. 




This image is not really similar to mine however it goes in a pattern and sequence which mine does too. Both our images go in a series which makes them similar too, Both the images are Large files. There not really based on the same subject. I think this image is interesting as its only in a sequence of 4 but it clearly shows the different motions in the image. 
 
this photo is called 'chance meeting and was published in 1970. This image is similar to my images because he has done them in a sequence and captured the different things happening in the image. His images are in black and white and mine our in colour. Both of our images are in a series and both our images are large files. The composition on this image is similar to mine as both mine and this image is taken outside and taken with people in it moving in different motions. The lighting is obviously brighter in my image as this ones in black and white and mine is in colour.