Sequential imagery research

Recently, we started learning about sequential photography in my Digital Arts class. It is a really interesting form of photography worth looking at. So I would like to devote this post to one of the photographers who inspired me to try this sequence myself. 

Sequential photography is a technique for taking a series of photos that capture an object in motion. Merging such a sequence of photos allows you to see a completely different perspective, different from what can be captured in one photo.

Duane Michals

Death Comes to the Old Lady
1969

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Duane Michals is an American photographer. He is one of the greatest photographic innovators of the last century. The sequences for which he is commonly known correspond to the cinema frame-by-frame format. In his compositions, he also presented photographs in combination with text. Michals believed the photos were fictional, so he staged the narrative in his sequential photos. 

Magic Mirror of Uncertainty, 1998 Sequence of 6 copies in silver gelatin with handwritten text. Courtesy of the DC Moore Gallery, New York

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Aleksander Strecker writes about Michals as: "Over the course of 55 years of creative output, Michals has ceaselessly reinvented himself, never content to settle on a single anything. He has staged photographs, he has written on photographs, he has drawn, painted and manipulated photographs, he has constructed elaborate fictional narratives—in short, he has never allowed himself to be limited merely by what was done before in the genre. Perhaps his striving, roving, ceaseless search for new forms of expression is best summed up by his philosophy, “My pictures are more about questions, not about answers.” In my works, I would also like to present fictional narratives. I hope that I will be able to create photos that will be something new, something that goes beyond the well-known patterns.

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The quote comes from the site - https://www.lensculture.com/articles/duane-michals-storyteller-the-photographs-of-duane-michals-2

f the ADC Moore Gallery, New York