Duane Michals, Photographer With Stories to Tell, Dies at 94

Michals died on Tuesday at 94. He often used the kind of ghost images he employed for this essay, notably in "The Spirit Leaves the Body" (1968), which you can see here. It was a true honor to share space with one of his final pieces of work. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

Sad news. What a legend — Duane Michals, Photographer With Stories to Tell, Dies at 94. RIP www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

“When I write, it’s to talk about what you cannot see in the photograph,” he said in a 2019 interview. “It’s to augment the photograph, to give voice to the silence of it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

RIP Duane Michals www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

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Duane Michals, Photographer With Stories to Tell, Dies at 94 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

I'm gutted. Duane Michals entered my life at the time I was suffering my first real, catastrophic heartbreak in the 80s. We spent an entire night in his Montreal hotel room with a bottle of single malt, talking about life, Alan Watts, art & queerness until dawn. 💔 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

It was such an incredible joy to have Duane Michals in our Short Film Festival in 2017. I had a chance to tell him how much his work & teaching meant to my mother, decades earlier. RIP Duane Michals, love from both of us www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

Sad news, he‘s been a *huge* influence on my work.

His work haunts us, in a good way. Simply to call him a "narrative phtographer" misses what was so innovative, and influential, about Michals' art, including on folks who may not realize it.

So long ...

Duane Michals, Photographer With Stories to Tell, Dies at 94 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

We lost two of photography's best people recently; Jeff Schewe and now Duane Michals. Both larger than life, they taught and inspired a generation or two. RIP, Duane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

#RIP Duane Michals (February 18, 1932 - June 9, 2026) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

Duane Michals, Photographer With Stories to Tell, Dies at 94. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

Wow, just find out via @austinkleon.bsky.social’s newsletter that Duane Michals has left the building, too. Giants are passing… www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

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RIP Duane Michals. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a... Su perfil en su galerista, DC Moore → www.dcmooregallery.com/artists/duan...

#RIP Duane Michals. The giant of #storytelling #photography … www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

“When I write, it’s to talk about what you cannot see in the photograph… It’s to augment the photograph, to give voice to the silence of it” — Duane Michals (1932–2026). www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

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Rest in Peace, Duane. Dirty jokes are being told in Heaven tonight. I studied Duane’s work like countless college art students, and his work was hugely influential. I had the great opportunity to meet and partner with him on a charity event & always happy to run into this deliciously ribald legend.

An incredible artist. If you are in or near Cologne, go see his work at Kolumba. Duane Michals, Photographer With Stories to Tell, Dies at 94 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

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“I believe the only true knowledge is through experience. You read a love story, and then you fall in love — then you realize the difference. I want to know what something feels like, not what it looks like.”

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Not necessarily a great talent but at least a special one. So, noted. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

RIP to Duane Michals. Here's a gift link to his NYT obituary: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

Duane Michals, Photographer With Stories to Tell, Dies at 94 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

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Duane Michals, Photographer With Stories to Tell, Dies at 94 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

Note: one of the writers of this obituary died more than two years before the subject of the obituary. (pre-writing obituaries is a common practice in the newspaper business).

A self-taught photographer and proud misfit, Mr. Michals neither belonged to a particular school of art nor founded one. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

Duane Michals RIP "Atget’s work led him toward the surrealism of Magritte, Cornell & Giorgio de Chirico. Eventually [he] renounced documentary photography as insufficient for his artistic ambitions. “To photograph reality,” he once said, “is to photograph nothing.” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...

Duane Michals, Photographer With Stories to Tell, Dies at 94 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...