Duane Michals

This week's selection comes from Duane Michals, an American photographer that incorporates text with his photographs. I found his book How Photography Lost Its Virginity on the Way to the Bank a funny/serious photo book. Michals' uses a lot of satire in his artworks.

A page that I wanted to point out from the book contained this spread. Throughout the book, Michals used some form of text paired with a photo/series of photos. In the one above, Michals mimics Ed Rusha's famous series Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles. He uses an image of a toliet paper roll and repeats it twenty times. Using the same typeface as Rusha's book, he creates an anecdote of the origin of this series of photographs. Michals seems to be mocking Rusha. I'm not sure of the reason why he's doing that, but throughout Michals' book, I could tell he had a certain way of getting his messages across through photography. Whether he intended to mock Rusha seriously or playfully can be interpreted either way.