How Nice to Watch You Take a Bath,

1986

<p>For more than five decades, Duane Michals has utilized innovative stylistic approaches to photography—sequences, multiple exposures, the combination of image and handwritten text—to tell stories that range from the amusing to the tragic. Largely self-taught, he often creates narratives across a series of images, blending words with images in a format similar to cinematic sequences. The purpose seems at once to be an examination of emotion and of philosophy. Michals has said, “I use photography to help me explain my experience to myself.”<br></p>