Duane Michals. Photographies de 1958 à 1982
Paris: Mois de la Photo, 1982. 1st Edition. Quarto, publisher's stiff photo-illustrated wraps, original printed glassine dust jacket.
"For Duane Michals, grasping reality, capturing movement, taking from life, inducing to see...are the traps of photography: a false compulsion, a clumsy desire, having illusions about yourself...[Michals] is struggling to break free from this ponderous ethic of observation" (from the introduction by Michel Foucault). Exhibition catalog, presentation copy, for a career-spanning show of the narrative photos and writings of Duane Michals at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (November 9, 1982 - January 9, 1983), inscribed by Michals to George Stambolian. Michals began his self-taught career taking frequent portrait assignments from Harper’s Bazaar, and in the mid-1960s began exploring sequences of staged, narrative photos in his personal work. From there it was a short step to what has become recognized as his signature style – multi-frame still images with philosophical or humorous musings scrawled on them. With a list of publications, exhibitions, and a checklist. Text in French and English. A French professor and editor central to the early gay literary movement, Stambolian is best known for his Men On Men anthologies, collections of gay male fiction published in the 1980s and early 90s featuring work by Kikel, Andrew Holleran, Edmund White, and Felice Picano among other emerging gay writers. Inscribed by Michals to the title page: "For George / [?] / Duane Michals." Light toning and soiling to glassine dust jacket. Near fine. Item #11927
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