Duane Stephen Michals
American, 1932-2026
The Bogeyman
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Duane Stephen Michals
American, 1932-20261973
The Bogeyman
Duane Stephen Michals American, 1932-2026 →gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographic process
Date
1973
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
8.7 × 13.2 cm (3 7/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
National Endowment for the Arts Museum Purchase Grant
Duane Michals is a pioneer of the staged fine art photograph, in which he uses sequencing and incorporated text to construct a narrative. His orchestrated fictions engage recurring, universal themes: sex, death, love, fear, and violence. This sequence illustrates the bogeyman, a creature that provokes nighttime fears in children everywhere, in a tale that hints at deeper psychological and metaphysical questions as well.
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