Duane Michals: the Portraitist
Aug
24
2022
Thru
Nov
18
2022
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
Duane Michals: The Portraitist is on view in the Harnett Museum of Art, August 24 through November 18, 2022. The exhibition presents the first comprehensive overview of inventive photographic portraits by one of the medium’s most influential artists. Best known as a pioneer who broke away from established traditions of documentary photography in the 1960s, Michals is widely recognized for his ability to navigate between imposing his style and allowing his sitters to express themselves, and for the sequences he assembles to convey personal visual narratives, often adding handwritten messages and poems on the photographic print surface.