American art photographer Duane Michals was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport in 1932 and began his career in earnest in 1958, when, around the height of the Cold War, he borrowed a camera, travelled to Russia and made portraits of ordinary people on the streets. Since then he has taken imaginative, original pictures of some of the most interesting figures of the time, which are finally gathered together in his new monograph ‘Portraits’: from artists like René Magritte and David Hockney, to writers like Norman Mailer, to chanteuses like Barbra Streisand, he’s met them all. Furthermore, aged 86, Michals is having something of a late flourishing, having not only published this book but also shot some of recent campaigns for the esteemed Spanish fashion house Loewe in collaboration with its young creative director Jonathan Anderson.  

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