Research: Photography and Narrative
Duane Michals

I chosen the strip of images on reflection as to me it looks like its narrating the self conscious on her appearance. So the model is looking into the mirror in different angles to see her best sides of her face or see what perfection she has on her face to flatter herself.

In Mckeesport, pennsylvania, he returns often searching memories and insightful for its features and puzzling through his family history through photography and writing which helped made a small book of precise, responsive rhymes, titled " A Pittsburgh Poem" because he studied art at Carnegie. He did the poem as a homage to it's presence and character. Books and literature are important to him as inspiration and expression as photography and painting.

Since the 60s he had been staging scenes to photograph, often using multiple exposures and creating several photographs on one sheet to explore and express the nature of time, mortality, memory and experience. Within his photographs, he adds references to his life and past and other works of art relating to his to add captions and stories and often places his photographs with long rhymes and prose in carefully designed books. He has also been oil painting on top of his photographs since the 80s. oil painting example is underneath:

 

Duane believes that photographs describe exquisitely unless photographer brings insight to the photo. It's not about the photograph or the camera, its about atmosphere, but can't express atmosphere because its ambiguous.

I chose the street photography sequences as it  feels of stalking involved and a sense of uncomfortableness in the alleyway, dull, gloom and a feel of something is going to happen like the person who feels to be followed goes up to find out what the bid deal is.  This scenes all show differently on two people looking at each other to see whos stalking who or just when passing him he felt an odd feeling that something is not right.