Name: DUANE MICHALS (B. 1932)
Brand: Illuminated Man, 1968
Price: 3800.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

DUANE MICHALS (B. 1932)
Illuminated Man, 1968
gelatin silver print
signed, titled and numbered '4/25' in ink (margin); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image: 4⁷⁄₈ x 7¹⁄₄ in. (12.3 x 18.4 cm.)
sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm.)
This work is number four from an edition of twenty-five.

Sidney Janis Limited, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1978.

W.M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, Aperture, New York, 2011, p. 279.

Arles, Recontres de la Photographie; Lausanne, Musée de l'Élysée; Amsterdam, FOAM Fotogafiemuseum, Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear, 2005-2007.
Ocala, Appelton Museum of Fine Arts, The Unseen Eye: Photography from the Collection of W.M. Hunt, November 7, 2010–January 2, 2011.
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, October 1, 2011–February 19, 2012.
Portland, Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, The Unseen Eye, September 6–30, 2012.

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'Duane Michals is a poet in photography, a distiller of truths. People love him because he is direct. He hates any dissembling. He is the illuminated one. Philosophically, this image of an illuminated man is archetypal of the collection. It is about enlightenment. I like the way this photograph is uncluttered and formal: the subject in the middle of the frame, upright not horizontal. Keep it simple – and strange and amazing. When collectors know their taste and are able to articulate it, it is liberating. It makes the process of looking go faster when you can describe it; other eyes can be looking with you.' – W.M. Hunt