DUANE MICHALS/ THE MAN WHO INVENTED HIMSELF (DVD)

Duane Michals is a young man over 80 years old and one of the American masters of photography. A brilliant portraitist, he has taken shots of everyone from filmmakers Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roman Polanski to artists such as Rene Magritte and Gior- gio de Chirico. He is also a natural-born storyteller, and incorporates hand-written texts to his images to add another dimension of meaning. His w ork has been exhibited around the world, and resides in the permanent collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Muse um of Ar...[Read more]