The Bogeyman, Duane Stephen Michals, 1973
Duane Michals, portraitDuane MichalsAmerican, 1932–2026

The Bogeyman

1973 · Photograph

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Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

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About the work

Duane Michals is a pioneer of the staged fine art photograph, in which he uses sequencing and incorporated text to construct a narrative. His orchestrated fictions engage recurring, universal themes: sex, death, love, fear, and violence. This sequence illustrates the bogeyman, a creature that provokes nighttime fears in children everywhere, in a tale that hints at deeper psychological and metaphysical questions as well.

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1989.115.3

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