Storyteller: The Photographs
of Duane Michals
an exhibition at the Carnegie Museum
of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
November 1, 2014–February 16, 2015,
and the Peabody Essex Museum,
Salem, Massachusetts,
March 14–June 21, 2015.
Catalog of the exhibition
by Linda Benedict-Jones,
Carnegie Museum of Art/DelMonico/
Prestel, 240 pp., $75.00
ABCDuane:
A Duane Michals Primer
by Duane Michals.
Monacelli, 184 pp., $40.00
Duane Michals: Collector
an exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 1, 2014–March 2, 2015
The photographer Duane Michals is a law unto himself. Ina career spanning more than half a century he has worked in both utilitarian black-and-white and luxuriant color, produced slapstick self-portraits, evoked erotic daydreams, pamphleteered against art world fashions, and painted whimsical abstract designs on vintage photographs. You would be in for a disappointment…