Duane Michals

Duane Michals

Duane started taking snap shots when touring the world in 1958.  He said ‘There’s no other art from which reproduces reality with that kind of fidlity’.
His images are both documentary and portraiture due to him photographing people, and them documenting them into a sequence.
This image of his is called ‘Chance Meeting’ this name is significant and relates to his works because there are two men who walk past each other and relating to the name it looks like they haven’t seen each other in ages and have casually met in and ally way.
The work to me is about two men who know each other but haven’t met in ages, and then they both pass each other in an ally way and then realise who each other are once they have walked past. These images have been digitally manipulated because they look like they have been cropped down and changed in to black and white.
The composition on the images is really well done, he has thought about the lighting, and when he was taking the image. He has also thought about the location and got them out of the was so its just them to people passing and no one else is around at that time. Each image the men are getting closer so he has also thought about the distance of the two people on each image. These images are shown in one of his books, which is called ‘The Essential Duane Michals’.
His work inspired me to try and experiment doing different things with my images. That’s where the idea of sequencing my images came from. His work doesn’t relate to my assignment, however it does because I have I used the idea of sequencing my work.