I had an esthetic itch, you know, like some people have – are naturals, they’re playing ball when they’re five years old and by ten years old they’re already in Little League. MICHALS: Quite by accident, and that was my saving grace because I had never planned to be a photographer. How did you begin? How did you get started? It’s my pleasure to welcome photographer Duane Michals to These Days.ĬAVANAUGH: Let me talk about your career in photography. His work hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty and here at our own Museum of Photographic Art in Balboa Park. Michals says we can go on forever photographing faces and places, or aspire to a photography that transcends description.
At a time when the great names in photography were still deeply involved in exploring the natural world, Michals explored his own world, staging events for the camera, working in picture sequences to tell a story, and painting and writing on his photographs. Cameras take pictures of things, artists take pictures of ideas, and one of the first photographic artists to make his ideas into pictures is my next guest, Duane Michals. I'm Maureen Cavanaugh, and you're listening to These Days on KPBS. The event is sponsored by the San Diego State University Art Council. Michals will lecture this evening at the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla at 7:30 p.m.
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