He told me that the decisive moment didn’t work for him he needed the moment before and the moment after.” To help organize what had become the largest collection of Michals’ work worldwide, and figure out how best to exhibit it, Benedict-Jones brought in Adam Ryan as curatorial assistant in photography. Instead of accepting the importance of the ‘decisive moment’, so sought after among street photographers, Michals created sequences of multiple images to convey his visual narratives. “He was a pioneer in the 1960s when he began writing messages on the surface of photographs, something that was a distinct no-no among the photographic elite. “Duane Michals is one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century,” Benedict-Jones said. He constructed sequences of surreal events that viewers watched unfold. Revered for changing the function of photography from a form of documentary to art, Pittsburgh-born Michals created photos and scenes not necessarily connected to the real world. ![]() ![]() " Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals” was a definitive retrospective of the groundbreaking photographer. FebruProfessor Brings Duane Michals’ Photography To Life In Major Exhibition Six years ago, Linda Benedict-Jones, adjunct professor of history in the Dietrich College, began working on her final exhibition as curator of photography at Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA).
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