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The artist Magritte with a hat.
Magritte with Hat, 1965.
Photo: Duane Michals, © DC Moore Gallery, New York
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Online-lecture: Who is Duane Michals?

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In connection to the exhibition Duane Michals: The Portraitist at Hasselblad Center, HDK-Valand and Hasselblad Center invites you to an online-lecture with American curator and historian Linda Benedict-Jones. As the curator of the exhibition at Hasselblad Center, she will tell you all about Duane Michals, his artistic practice, and multifaceted photographs.

Lecture,
Webinar
Date
14 Mar 2022
Time
15:00 - 16:00
Location
Online

With her own words, this is what to expect at her lecture:

“Who is Duane Michals?  What was it about his photographs that broke away from the all-important “decisive moment” approach of the 1960s?  What sorts of stories did he tell with his sequences?  Was it actually possible to be a fine-art photographer and a commercial photographer at the same time?  Come on, is he really still making art at age 90? These, and other, questions will be answered by Linda Benedict-Jones, curator of Duane Michals: The Portraitist.  The presentation will be accompanied by a broad range of images that are not included in the actual exhibition at the Hasselblad Foundation/Center.”

About the lecturer:

LINDA BENEDICT-JONES is a photographer, writer, independent curator, and photographic historian who retired in 2015 from Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh after organizing the major retrospective Storyteller:  The Photographs of Duane Michals.  She also served as director of Silver Eye Center for Photography and education curator at The Frick Pittsburgh.  Prior to this, she was curator of The Polaroid Collection in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she earned a Master of Science in Visual Studies degree at MIT.

The lecture will be held in English.

This is an online lecture via Zoom, link to the event HERE.

Image:
Magritte with Hat, 1965
Duane Michals (1932-)
© DC Moore Gallery, New York

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