Assignment 4 - research (4)

Duane Michals  - Telling a story through a series of photos

Looking at the work of this photographer, made me think hard about the approach that I might take with this assignment. 

Michals ( b. 1932 )is not a reportage photographer. He is noted for two innovations:

• Telling a story through a series of photos as in 1970 book 'Sequences'
• Handwriting text near his photographs , thereby giving information that the image itself did not convey

While many photographers depend on an accident, Michals work is more structured and doesn't rely on this. His view is that images should ask questions. Photographers show the package not the content. in other words.. he sees the key word as being 'expression'.




© Duane Michals-The Henry L.Hillman Fund,
Carnegie Museum of Art,Pittsburgh/
Courtesy of the Artist and DC Moore Gallery

So staged, and created- used to create a narrative..

 ©Duane Michals-The Henry L,Hillman Fund,

Carnegie Museum of Art,Pittsburgh

/Courtesy of the Artist and DC Moore Callery

http://bit.ly/1GLhXbo

Thinking about my approach to 'Love Albert Road' , there may be some opportunity to use text to give information that the image doesn't itself give....much depends on what images present themselves when I'm out and about in Albert Road.