'The Photographer of the Invisible': Duane Michals' Emulsified Thoughts

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«When you look at my photographs, you are looking at my thoughts». These words of Duane Michals (McKeesport, Pennsylvania, 1932) serve as a perfect prologue for us to begin to understand the uniqueness of this photographer, one of the most personal and influential of the entire 20th century. More personal, because through a rabidly original look and alien to the documentary tendencies prevailing in the 60s and 70s, he knew how to find his own vo…