id: 154870 accession number: 1989.446 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.446 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:06.932000 Paradise Regained, 1968. Duane Michals (American, 1932-). Gelatin silver print; image: 8.6 x 12.7 cm (3 3/8 x 5 in.); paper: 12.6 x 17.8 cm (4 15/16 x 7 in.); matted: 30.6 x 35.6 cm (12 1/16 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Museum members in 1989 1989.446 © Duane Michals. Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York. title: Paradise Regained title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1968 creation date earliest: 1968 creation date latest: 1968 current location: creditline: Gift of Museum members in 1989 copyright: © Duane Michals. Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York. --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Duane Michals (American, 1932-) - artist Duane Michals American, 1932- Although believing reality to be invisible, Duane Michals has used his camera to give photographic credulity to myths, fantasy, spirits, and dreams. His innovative narrative sequences question nothing less than the nature of truth. Michals (born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania) studied at the University of Denver (B.A., 1953) and Parsons School of Design in New York (1956–57). Self-taught as a photographer, he made his first portraits in 1958 while on a trip to Russia and established himself commercially upon returning to New York City. He has continued to maintain an active commercial freelance career, completing assignments for Vogue, Esquire, Mademoiselle, Horizon, and Scientific American magazines. In 1964 Michals began making personal images; his earliest scenes included empty cafes, buses, stores, and laundromats. Two years later, he started his first sequence. Influenced by surrealist painters such as Rene Magritte and Giorgio de Chirico, Michals addresses sexuality, death, and spirituality in open-ended narratives, relying on the artifice of drama to straddle the line between fact and fiction. Devices such as multiple exposures and blurred focus add to his witty questioning of photographic veracity. In 1971 he began to accompany his sequences with handwritten texts, presenting series geared to the book form. Michals's major publications include Sequences (1970), The Journey of the Spirit after Death (1971), Things Are Queer (1973), Chance Meeting (1973), Paradise Regained (1973), Take One and See Mount Fujiyama and Other Stories (1976), Real Dreams (1977), Homage to Cavafy: Ten Poems by Constantine Cavafy/Ten Photographs by Duane Michals (1978), and Upside Down, Inside Out and Backwards (1993). His work has been shown internationally, with one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1970), the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (1989, European tour), and the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego (1990, national tour). Michals has received a New York Creative Artists Public Service Grant (1975), fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1976) and the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts (1978), the Medaille de Vermeil de la Ville de Paris (1982), the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Art (1991), an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society, Bath (1992), the Century Award from the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego (1993), and a gold medal for photography from the National Arts Club, New York (1994). He taught as the Meadows Distinguished Visiting Professor at Southern Methodist University (1989) and received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the Art Institute of Boston (1993). Michals lives in New York. A.W. --- measurements: Image: 8.6 x 12.7 cm (3 3/8 x 5 in.); Paper: 12.6 x 17.8 cm (4 15/16 x 7 in.); Matted: 30.6 x 35.6 cm (12 1/16 x 14 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in ink on recto "Paradise Regained" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1996-11-24T05:00:00 Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997). title: PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet opening date: 2020-02-07T05:00:00 PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-November 29, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hinson, Tom E. "Contemporary American Photographs: An Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 9 (1992): 306-51. page number: Reproduced & Mentioned: p. 315-17 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161375 Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 56-59; Reproduced: P. 244 url: --- IMAGES