MICHALS DUANE The Human Condition

Sale 1947 - Lot 206

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Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000

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"The Human Condition." A series of 6 original photographs. Silver prints, each is 3 1/2x5 inches (8.4x12.6 cm.), overall size is 10 1/4x51inches (26x130 cm.), with Michals's handwritten number at top, his handwritten title on print #1, and his signature and edition notations, "III/V," in ink, on recto of the final print; overall size is 11 1/4x51 1/4 inches; framed. 1969

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Michals' wry observations on "the human condition." The series opens with two sequential images of a long-haired protagonist standing on a N. Y. C. subway platform. In the third frame blurry points of light superimpose this figure who becomes increasingly indistinct. By the fourth print the encroaching oval-shaped light force reveals itself to be the Milky Way, which envelops the subject in a blinding white light. The final prints show our time-traveling hero receding into deep space, light years away from the 14th Street subway station. <