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The Bogeyman
Duane Stephen Michals1973
- Attribution
- Duane Stephen Michals American, born 1932
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Physical dimensions
- 8.7 × 13.2 cm (3 7/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- National Endowment for the Arts Museum Purchase Grant
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Duane Michals is a pioneer of the staged fine art photograph, in which he uses sequencing and incorporated text to construct a narrative. His orchestrated fictions engage recurring, universal themes: sex, death, love, fear, and violence. This sequence illustrates the bogeyman, a creature that provokes nighttime fears in children everywhere, in a tale that hints at deeper psychological and metaphysical questions as well.
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