Artist
Duane Michals (American, born 1932)American, born 1932
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Homage to Cavafy
Date1978
PlaceUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 3 3/8 × 5 1/16 in. (8.6 × 12.8 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 2003, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1664
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in, "Photoforum 2003", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 15–December 1, 2003.
"Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, November 1, 2014–February 16, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
in ink recto of sheet, below image: "When he was a young man, it seemed impossible that / he would ever grow old. Now that he is old, he cannot remember ever having been young."
I in pencil, verso of sheet, upside down in the center: "TT 758 / C1-4A / TT178 / [circled] 22"
I in pencil, verso of sheet, upside down in the center: "TT 758 / C1-4A / TT178 / [circled] 22"
in ink recto of sheet, lower center: "Duane Michals 8/25"
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Duane Michals
1992, printed 1994
Gelatin silver print with handwritten text
94.192
