My Duane Michals

Duane Michals feature style is photo-sequences, series of pictures that usually capture a short story. The following pictures depict my unique spin on his idea. Although Michals' pictures were mostly in black and white, I decided to use color because I felt it added to my theme. My "short story" is about an artist at work.

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Duane Michals, born in 1932, is a mainly self-taught American photographer. For many years he worked in commercial photography for magazines like Esquire. Later, unlike other photographers of the time including Irving Penn, Michals took portraits of people in their own environment. His feature style is photo-sequences, series of pictures that usually capture a short story.

Eadweard Muybridge, a British photographer born in 1830, was primarily known for using multiple cameras to capture motion. In the beginning, Muybridge became famous for his landscape photos, especially of Yosemite and San Francisco. Then, he was hired to settle the question of whether there was “a point in a horse’s full gallop when all four hooves were off the ground.” He answered this question positively by taking a series of photographs called The Horse in Motion. Later, Muybridge invented the “Zoopraxiscope,” a machine that projected multiple images over time to produce “motion”. He used this technique and his photographs to study the movement of people and animals.

Irving Penn, born in 1917, is an American photographer who is chiefly known for his fashion photography. He worked for Vogue magazine as one of the first photographers to put his models against simple backgrounds. Some of his models included Martha Graham and Georgia O’Keeffe. Although his images were always pristine and clear, Penn used a variety of subjects.

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Photo-Secession

By the end of the 19^th century, many Americans wished to break away from traditional photography because they felt it was no longer interesting. In 1902, a group of photographers led by Alfred Stieglitz formed the Photo-Secession with these ideas in mind. They believed that the artist’s manipulation of the photograph was more important than the image itself. The movement lasted about 10 years, raising the standards and increasing overall awareness of photography.This is one of Alfred Stieglitz's photographs. He was the founder of the Photo-Secession movement and manipulated his works to create eerie images.

Above is one of Edward Steichen's photographs taken during the Photo-Secession movement. Steichen was the most featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' magazine Camera Work and co-opened the "Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession" with Stieglitz as well.

This is a photography by Gertrude Käsebier, an American photographer of the early 20th century and a founding member of the Photo-Secession. She was mainly recognized for her images of motherhood, which were found in the Photo-Secession magazine and galleries. Also, she encouraged more women to take careers in photography.

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