Duane Michals changed his approach to photography after becoming dissatisfied with straight documentation. He believed that it could not fully express inner experience, dreams, memory, or philosophical questions. Influenced by Surrealist painters, especially René Magritte, Michals began creating staged narratives, photographic sequences, and images that explored invisible ideas, emotions, and mysteries beyond everyday reality.
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