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At McKeesport High School, Sonny was the news editor of The Red and Blue. During his fifteenth summer, Duane Michals found his way to Amarillo, Texas with Jimmy Connelly on…

During the Korean War, Sonny became a second lieutenant in armor when he was a green twenty-one and luckily exported to Deutschland. The alternative Korea certainly would have been his…

Being indecisive Duane Michals became frustrated with the decisive moment and began telling his own stories, thus inventing sequences. Suddenly a one man exhibition at MoMA, amazing! By 1965, Sonny…

Simultaneously while doing his personal photography, Sonny always made his living as the most unprofessional professional photographer – no agent, no studio, no staff (except for a freelance assistant), and…

Having liberated himself with language, Michals published many books, but his crown jewel was Questions without Answers, his most philosophic book. He also published a children’s book. A book about…

With a grant from Paris Audiovisuel, Duane Michals did a series of charming fables about the City of Lights, couture, l’amour, cuisine, literature, Josephine Baker meeting Toulouse, Toklas meets Stein.…

Last January, on a snowy Sunday afternoon, I chanced to find my orphaned correspondence abandoned appropriately in the back of a closet. I began to read the words I had…