Duane Michals
Series called ‘talking pictures’: photo and handwritten words that are somewhat poetic
Some political content, handwrites connotations onto actual photographs
Andy Warhol
Iconic artist of 1960’s pop culture, world famous particularly for the print of Marilyn Monroe. Warhol used repetitive images used to make collage works. Using photographs and recolouring them, reappropriating them.
Self-Portrait, 1981 by Andy Warhol
David Hockney
Pearl Blossom Highway:
Hockney has criticised aspects of photography despite using the medium to produce many of his works. He noticed that photographs taken in the late 1960s came out a bit distorted. This lent him to the idea of creating "joiners" i.e photographic collages.
‘My Mother Bolton Abbey, 1982
Multiple photos collaged together to create one singular image
Andy Goldsworthy
Land artist, creates sculptures with stone and ice/snow. ‘Ephemeral’ - lasting for a very short time.
Peter Kennard
Photographer, collage artist
Union Mask (1981)
Mostly political artist
Haywain with Cruise Missiles (1980)
I'm choosing to look at Duane Michals work, probably because it appealed most to me. I’m really interested in the handwritten words on his photos and how they relate.
Things to discuss in the essay:
Relationship between the creative aspects: different media used, how they work together and what effect they might have.
The artist’s message: context, intention, meaning
The photography: how it plays a part in the work, how is it necessary to art
How does it relate to time and place
Resources:
https://www.dcmooregallery.com/exhibitions/duane-michals-sequences-and-talking-pictures
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/duane-michals-storyteller-the-photographs-of-duane-michals-2
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/duane-michals-the-illusions-of-the-photographer
Essay LAyout:
Introduction:
Who/what im looking at
Why im looking at it
What im going to say
Paragraph 1: the relationship between photo and text
What, description- name some of the works as examples one caption on poetic
Words become a separate part of the work unlike other artists such as tracy emin where the words are the work
Distinctive handwriting is like an artists brushwork
Journalistic and personal
Paragraph 2: the artists meaning
Provides Context
Documentation
spiritual/catholic
Lgbtq
Influences
Paragraph 3:
Time and place, sequences
I remember pittsburgh series
Things are queer
In a statement Michals explains that these sequential narratives more fully express and explain an event than just one still photograph can and he considers them to be premeditated illustrations. Magali Duzant
“This is a story about a man telling a story about a man who is telling a story.” So begins the text of Duane Michals’ image A Story About a Story, currently on view in the show Illusions of the Photographer at The Morgan Library & Museum.
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