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Duane Michals Duane Michals is a photographer widely known for integrating hand written text into his photography. Michals began seriously photographing in the 1960s, which was a time heavily influenced by photojournalism, thus giving a reason of why most of his work is narrative. Through bringing text into his photography Michals gives a voice to his photographs and is able to enhance whatever feeling is trying to be conveyed through the picture whether it be humor, tragedy, or even heartbreak. Michals was quoted saying “I use photography to help me explain my experience to myself, I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” When examining Michals’ photographs it’s clear to see that he mainly creates black and white portrait photography. A majority of his photographs have the subject centered, in a relatively plain and basic background, although Michals’ work does include photographs that have the subjects in different en
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