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In the 1970s, Michals began writing on his photographs with the intention “not to explain to you what you’re looking at, but to express the frustration of the inability of the photograph to tell you.” The handwritten texts extend and imbue these images of single male figures with unseen narratives of grief, desire, and melancholy.


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