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'Chance Meeting'

Photograph
1972 (made)
Artist/Maker
Duane Michals

Duane Michals, 'Chance Meeting', 1972

Object details

Categories
Photographs
Gender and Sexuality
LGBTQ
Making It Up: Photographic Fictions
Object type
Photograph
Title'Chance Meeting'
Brief description
Duane Michals, 'Chance Meeting', 1972
Dimensions
  • Height: 85mm
  • Length: 128mm
Gallery label
Label for 'Making It Up: Photographic Fictions' (3 May 2013 - 12 January 2014):

Duane Michals (born 1932)
Chance Meeting
1972

Michals uses sequences of photographs to suggest a narrative. The stories are often open-ended, and sometimes even surreal. In this sequence, two men pass in an alleyway without incident, but the encounter seems loaded with significance. The photographs are framed consistently, and the figures move move in and out of the shot, as in a film.

Gelatin silver prints
Museum nos. Ph.1038 to 1043-1978
Subjects depicted
Gay
Homosexuality
Bibliographic reference
Published in V&A Publications/Thames and Hudson 'Making It Up: Photographic Fictions' 2018, by Marta Weiss
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
PH.1038-1978

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1059294/chance-meeting-photograph-duane-michals/
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