In an introductory photography class, we studied various famous photographers. At the end of the semester, we were asked to emulate a photographer whose style we liked. I chose Duane Michals' The Dream of Flowers.

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It began with a letter. In the early ’90s I was in school studying photography and learning its lineage, getting excited by who begat whom and finding heroes who made photos that seemed beyond what I might be capable of. Duane Michals, Arthur Tress, Garry Winogrand, Joel-Peter Witkin, and

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Duane Michals is an American photographer noted for his sequential images, which often deal with myths and mysteries and for his creative extension of the possibilities of the photographic medium. Interested in art from a young age, Michals took classes at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh,

The photographer Duane Michals talks to Siobhan Bohnacker about his early work, and about his dream-like portraits of Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, and Andy Warhol.