From 28 May through 24 August 2025, Fundación Canal is pleased to present the exhibition Duane Michals. El fotógrafo de lo invisible (Duane Michals. Photographer of the Invisible), a one-of-a-kind retrospective included in PHotoEspaña 2025’s official section. Curated by Enrica Viganà and created in close collaboration with the artist himself, the collection gathers 51 works consisting of 150 photographs spanning six decades of uninterrupted work, from 1964 until his most recent creations, including a sequence from this year.
Duane Michals (McKeesport, Pennsylvania, 1932) was a key figure in the redefinition of contemporary photography and is considered a forerunner to conceptual and philosophical photography. Self-taught and unaware of the medium’s standards, he introduced visual narratives through sequences that tell a story and handwritten texts to accompany his images, challenging the documentary canon and shifting the focus toward the emotional, metaphysical, and poetic.
His photography, more like cinema or literature than the photojournalist tradition, questions the status of image as a record of reality. It represents abstract concepts like spirituality, philosophy, the passage of time, death, love, and the self.
From 28/05/2025 through 24/08/2025
Weekdays and bank holidays: 11h to 20h
Wednesdays: 11h to 15h
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