![]() Belle da Costa Greene and the Women of the Morgan.Dawn till Dusk: Studies of Light in Marine Sketches.PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE: Ray Johnson Photographs.Pierpont Morgan's Library: Building the Bookman's Paradise Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton.One Hundred Years of James Joyce's Ulysses.An audioguide narrated by the artist will complement a wide-ranging interview in the exhibition’s catalog. The exhibition will be accompanied by screenings of short films-Michals’ preferred medium in recent years. Michals leads viewers on a tour of his mind as he engages heroes and mentors as varied as William Blake, Edward Lear, and Saul Steinberg and matches wits with stage designers, toy-makers, and his fellow portraitists of the past and the present. Illusions of the Photographer combines a full career retrospective-the first on Michals to be organized by a New York City museum-with an artist’s-choice show, as Michals plumbs the Morgan’s vaults for treasures both revered and long-forgotten. Since the early 1960s, Michals has worked past what he sees as the limitations of the camera: he writes in the margins of his prints, creates sequences of images that explore intangible human dilemmas (doubt, mortality, desire), and derives poetic effects from technical errors such as double exposure and motion blur. ![]() Contemplative, confessional, and comedic, the art of Duane Michals exerts an appeal that transcends the conventional audience of photography.
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