Duane Michals is one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, whose innovations with image and text, multiple exposures, and working in series, have had a lasting impact on the field of photography. Michals’s use of text is a key component in much of his work; his handwritten texts add a layer of narrative content and reveal Michals’s often bittersweet sensibility. His work has been exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad and is collected in major museums around the globe including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others.