Duane MichalsPHOTOGRAPHER | FILMMAKER

Duane Michals is one of the great photographic innovators of the last century, widely known for his work with series, multiple exposures, and text. Michals’s work belongs to numerous permanent collections in the U.S. and abroad, including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Michals’s archive is housed at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. He has given talks at New York Film Academy on two different occasions. Displaying wit and charm, Michals advised to keep it loose stating, “The best revenge is having a sense of humor. This is your trip and you’re the alpha omega of your trip.”