First off, Duane Michals is one of my all-time favorite photographers. His photographs are so engaging and each give a different feel and tell a different story. But to me... a lot of his work has a very uncanny feeling. This particular image is a part of a sequence that Duane Michals shot all entitled "The Old Man Kills the Minotaur". What stood out the most about this photo in an uncanny way is the eerie feeling it gives because of the lighting and the movement effects that Michals employed in this image. Another reason this photo seemed uncanny is the emptiness of the space (which is in a large number of Michal's works). Duane Michals often incorporates text with his photo sequences to help employ emotion and philosophy. I think it's pretty obvious that his work exudes emotion and that emotion to me is a strong sense of the uncanny.It even reminds me of spirit photography because of the "spectral mist" that is created by the lighting and movement. I also thought it looked like a representation of a dream as well because of the aesthetics and subject matter of this image.
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