Michals has produced sequences of photographic images not to document stages in an event but to evoke a story. Two qualities that make these stories appropriate for photography, rather than film or print, are that the distance between images approximates the time it takes the reader to turn the page, and that the mystery of the plot depends upon actions that must have happened between the images. As Martin Vaughn-James said of his own visual fiction, Between one frame and the...
MICHALS, Duane
(*1932)