Salute, Walt Whitman

Salute, Walt WhitmanSalute, Walt Whitman is both an extension and a summation of Duane Michals's decades long exploration of desire and an acknowledgment of the lifelong comfort, inspiration, and extraordinary vision he's found in the writings of his spiritual mentor and companion, Walt Whitman. Suffering retrospectives and the accumulated critical accolades and dismissals that a long, illustrious career brings, Michals finds an open meadow in the ageless words of

The New York Times

For all lovers of early Hollywood and studio portrait photography

90 four-color plates

12 x 13 inches

splendor and roughness

one we might imagine future humans having when revisiting their ancestral home

Kurt Markus' photographs and writings have appeared frequently in publications which detail and observe the American Cowboy's place in our world today

despite the evidence

of West Bend

Markus gives a more human face to a sport that rewards only those from its highest ranks

which already had a reputation as one of the most committed and confrontational groups fighting for civil rights

In this marshy no-man’s-land between description and illusion