PICTURE THIS.
A Photo Experience with Duane Michals in McKeesport.
Friday evening July 14 Duane Michals Presentation
6:30 - 8:00 P.M.
McKeesport Regional History & Heritage Center, 1832 Arboretum Drive, McKeesport, PA 15132
Saturday July 14 Duane Michals Photo Experience
9:00 A.M. - Noon.
Tube City Center 409 Walnut Street, McKeesport, PA 15132
Duane Michals writes, “Sonny returns to the scene of the crime. Goodbye McKeesport, Hello. “
We are alive people, meeting ourselves in the art deco Daily News Building.
Expect magic, contradictions and risky business.
TAKE MY PICTURE.
We will float on clouds with our feet on the ground and do-done-did what we’ve never done before.
SHOW AND TELL, Bozo the clown portraits in a moving movie steel mill, souvenirs, quotes with misquotes, daydreams, memories in a camera obscura.
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Making Magic in McKeesport
Sitting at the confluence of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny Rivers, McKeesport is 12 miles south of Pittsburgh.
I threw a penny into the Youghiogheny and made a wish.
that I might float with it, down the Monongahela to the Allegheny.
Then further still below the Ohio, until I reached the Mississippi and the sea, There the tides would carry me away, to where I cannot say, Someplace fair and new.
And I would do thing's I had never done before, And my penny wish came true,
Duane Michals - from the book “The House I Once Called Home.”
Duane Michals
Duane Michals was born in McKeesport, a suburb of Pittsburgh, where he took studio art classes at the Carnegie Institute.
He received a BA from the University of Denver and attended Parsons School of Design in New York City.
Michals's photographic career commenced in 1958, when he traveled to Russia with a borrowed camera and made portraits of people on the streets. Over the following decades, he worked as a freelance photographer for magazines including Vogue, Esquire, Mademoiselle, and Life, doing fashion photography and portraits.
In his personal work, Michals experimented with combining text and drawings with his images and began addressing literary and philosophical ideas about death, gender, and sexuality.
He employed staged scenes and worked with multiple exposures, sequences, and in series techniques also used extensively in his portraits. Michals's 1970 Museum of Modern Art exhibition and his book Sequences made him an influential figure for an emerging generation investigating the conceptual and narrative possibilities of photography.
In recent years, he has had solo exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, New York(2005), the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2014), and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts (2015).
Michals's many books include Homage to Cavafy: Ten Poems by Constantine Cavafy/Ten Photographs by Duane Michals (1978), Eros & Thanatos (1992), and ABC Duane (2014).
Michals was made an Officier in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1993, and he was honored with the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Art in 1989, and the Foto España International Award in 2001.
He lives and works in New York City.
Follow Duane on Instagram he makes new work every week.
Tell a personal -
story, dream or fantasy
Inspired by the photographic works of Duane Michals
This photo experience in McKeesport will encourage you to make photographs or other digital media that tell a personal story.
Stories that evoke magic, create alchemy, exploration, discovery, innovation, wizardry, fantasy, life, love, despair, death, joy, anger, wonder, whimsy, ecstasy, hope, lightness, or possibly clowns.
Weaving characters, symbolism, and sequences creating a dialogue between the creator and the viewer.
Students will work with digital cameras or even smartphones whatever they choose to make the images they imagine.
We will review, discuss, critique, and celebrate by looking at photographs and videos created throughout the weekend.
There will be opportunities for one-on-one conversations with Duane and the co-educators.
We will do our best to accommodate the various cameras and software you may use to complete the projects.
You are encouraged to pursue your own vision throughout the workshop weekend.
This is a Tentative Schedule maybe changes dies to weather and access to locations. for Friday 6:00 Welcome and Community Presentation by Duane Michals at the McKeesport Regional History & Heritage Center
Saturday Morning 9:00 A.M. - Introduction to the Workshop
Students Portfolio review with Duane and Richard
Lunch in t.b.d
Saturday Afternoon 1:00 P.M. - 4:00 - Location trip to Carrie Furnaces in Rankin, PA.
Departures
No cameras or computers will be available for student use. Attendees are expected to bring the equipment they will need to make pictures.
The Daily News Building is equipped with an elevator.
Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, please let us know if you require any specific aids or services? rk@richardkelly.com
Please note by attending the Duane Michals Photo Experience in McKeesport you may be photographed, filmed or audio recorded and you agree to participating in these for any and all purposes including marketing, promotion and future distribution.
There will be liability waivers required as part of the Duane Michals Photo Experience in McKeesport
Produced by Richard Kelly Experience a d/b/a/ of Indigo Factory, Inc.
The photo experience will meet in the former Daily News building - now called the Tube City Center - home to the McKeesport Community Newsroom - a program of the Point Park University Center for Media Innovation.
Also home to The Tube City Almanac - here is a history of the Daily News Building.
The McKeesport Daily News published for 131 years. Its final newspaper was delivered December 31, 2015.
John F. Kennedy visited Twice!
It’s true, President John F. Kennedy campaigned for his re-election campaign in McKeesport October 13, 1962.
You can hear his speech
On a previous visit in April 21, 1947 Congressman Kennedy debated the Taft-Hartley Act with then fellow House of Representative Richard Nixon at the Penn McKee Hotel.
The statue of President John F. Kennedy across from the Daily News Building in Kennedy Memorial Park the statue was unveiled February 9 , 1965 and maybe the oldest statue to the former president. The full bodied bronze was sculpted by Bryant Baker.
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