Description: A comprehensive overview of one of our era's most influential artists and his portrait photography. Duane Michals was born in McKeesport, a suburb of Pittsburgh, where he took studio art classes at the Carnegie Institute. He received a BA from the University of Denver and attended Parsons School of Design in New York City. Michals's photographic career commenced in 1958, when he travelled to Russia with a borrowed camera and made portraits of people on the streets. Over the following decades, he worked as a freelance photographer for magazines including Vogue, Esquire, Mademoiselle and Life, doing fashion photography and portraits. Michals was made an Officier in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1993, and he was honoured with the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Art, in 1989, and the Foto España International Award in 2001. He lives and works in New York City. Subjects include: Johnny Cash, Eartha Kitt, The Mamas and the Papas, Barbra Streisand, Tom Waits, John Cassavetes, James Coburn, Robert Duvall, Joel Grey, Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Hopper, Jeremy Irons, Hildegarde Knef, Veronica Lake, Michael Richards, Meryl Streep, Donald Sutherland, Tilda Swinton, Liv Ullmann, Robin Williams, George Balanchine (and NYC Ballet principals), Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Balthus and Setsuko, Charles and Bertha Burchfield, Joseph Cornell, Edward Gorey, Mary Frank, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, René Magritte, Alice Neel, Richard Tuttle, Andy Warhol, Authors: John Ashbery, John Cheever, E. L. Doctorow, Lillian Hellman, Stephen King, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth and more
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EAN: 9780500544877
UPC: 9780500544877
ISBN: 9780500544877
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Book Title: Duane Michals: Portraits
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Rich & Famous, Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Photography, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 52.2 Oz
Item Length: 9.9 in
Author: Duane Michals
Item Width: 11.9 in
Format: Hardcover