The Crocker Art Museum announced the opening of Duane Michals: The Portraitist, the first exhibition to provide a comprehensive overview of inventive portraits by the influential photographer who, in the 1960s, broke away from established documentary and fine-art photography traditions, and is still creating original work today. Spanning Michals’s 60-year career, the exhibition features more than 125 portraits of American luminaries as well as anonymous individuals, family members, and friends. Many of the images are black-and-white photographs recently rediscovered by the artist in his New York apartment. The exhibition highlights the artist’s stylistically varied body of work through portraits that demonstrate his expansive toolkit — sequenced images, multiple exposures, reflections, uncommon vantage points, collage,
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