Duane Michals
I got to see one of my favorite artist speak last night at Georgia Southern. If you aren't familiar with Duane Michals work then you should get acquainted:
Duane Michals on Wikipedia.org
and here you can view some of his work:
Duane Michals on PopPhoto.com
and here:
Duane Michals at Temple.edu
I have to say it is hard to choose a favorite work of his. He does so many different and interesting things that I can't decide, but my favorite work for the evening was "Salvation." This picture features a priest holding a crucifix to another mans head as if it were a gun and there is text written above the picture that Michals wrote in himself that reads, "No American has the right to impose his personal morality on another American."
Here I got the picture for you:
(Side note: I think pictures make posts much more interesting.)
He also did a series which is kind of a spoof on Cindy Sherman's Untitled film stills.
In case you haven't seen any of Cindy Sherman's work, here's a very popular "film still,"
He's just a really interesting, funny, dirty-minded, exciting, inspiring old-man. I could listen to him talk for hours because he's just such a motivating person.
And for those of you not into the art scene or photography, another attention grabber is that he's done some work with celebrities, one being Richard Gear. And he knew Andy Warhol and all that jazz.
I went alone to this talk. I'm getting very used to going alone to the things I like to do. I even go on vacation alone. I'd call it pathetic, but in all honesty I think it's just becoming a part of who I am. And I don't want to call myself pathetic. I guess I'm just getting pretty passionate about the artsy fartsy things and it doesn't seem like my friends are interested, which is fine. Just gotta get used to doing things alone.
But I don't want to end this entry on that note. I'll end with a quote from Michals.
"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see."
Duane Michals on Wikipedia.org
and here you can view some of his work:
Duane Michals on PopPhoto.com
and here:
Duane Michals at Temple.edu
I have to say it is hard to choose a favorite work of his. He does so many different and interesting things that I can't decide, but my favorite work for the evening was "Salvation." This picture features a priest holding a crucifix to another mans head as if it were a gun and there is text written above the picture that Michals wrote in himself that reads, "No American has the right to impose his personal morality on another American."
Here I got the picture for you:
(Side note: I think pictures make posts much more interesting.)
He also did a series which is kind of a spoof on Cindy Sherman's Untitled film stills.
In case you haven't seen any of Cindy Sherman's work, here's a very popular "film still,"
He's just a really interesting, funny, dirty-minded, exciting, inspiring old-man. I could listen to him talk for hours because he's just such a motivating person.
And for those of you not into the art scene or photography, another attention grabber is that he's done some work with celebrities, one being Richard Gear. And he knew Andy Warhol and all that jazz.
I went alone to this talk. I'm getting very used to going alone to the things I like to do. I even go on vacation alone. I'd call it pathetic, but in all honesty I think it's just becoming a part of who I am. And I don't want to call myself pathetic. I guess I'm just getting pretty passionate about the artsy fartsy things and it doesn't seem like my friends are interested, which is fine. Just gotta get used to doing things alone.
But I don't want to end this entry on that note. I'll end with a quote from Michals.
"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see."