Duane Michals: Foto Follies: How Photography Lost its Virginity on the Way to the Bank - Softcover

Duane Michals

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500286752 ISBN 13: 9780500286753

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Of this satirical look at contemporary photography, Duane Michals has said, "The more serious you are, the sillier you have to be. I have a great capacity for foolishness. It's essential." Whether parodying Wolfgang Tillmans or Andres Serrano, Sherrie Levine (A Duane Michals Photograph of a Sherrie Levine Photograph of a Walker Evans Photograph) or Cindy Sherman (Who is Sydney Sherman?), Michals uses his ferocious wit and keen eye to create images at once humorous and penetrating. As The New York Times described Gursky's Gherkin, the work "explores as never before the sense of picklehood, or what it means to be a pickle." The Times also testified that "this high-humored sendup of arty photography should be required viewing for all art-world heavies, particularly critics, curators and collectors." Michals takes aim at pretensions that are often perceived as deliberately obscuring contemporary art, and in doing so he exemplifies his mastery of both the visual world and the written word, while providing the elemental pleasure of a good laugh.

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Review:

'Eloquent phot-sequences ... In a world of sycophancy and visual cannibalism, this is a counterblast. A breath of much-need foto fresh air' --Design Week

'A tongue-in-cheek swipe at [Michals'] latter-day contemporaries'
--Time Out

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0500286752
• ISBN 13: 9780500286753
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96