Salute, Walt Whitman OOP

Salute, Walt Whitman OOPSalute, Walt Whitman is both an extension and a summation of Duane Michals's decades long exploration of desire and an acknowledgment of the lifelong comfort, inspiration, and extraordinary vision he's found in the writings of his spiritual mentor and companion, Walt Whitman. Suffering retrospectives and the accumulated critical accolades and dismissals that a long, illustrious career brings, Michals finds an open meadow in the ageless words of

material and cultural phenomenon

the photos do reveal an internal drama

reveal a common bond that is rapidly disappearing in the United States

the Museum of Modern Art

performances and sometimes their deaths

Essays by Klaus Kertess and Francine Koslow Miller

Nick Sethi

Photographers Gallery

By disclosing (or pretending to disclose) something of the artist

and with the same regularity the individual passengers emerge

was feeling some of their pain

because we are aware that it is a part of lost time