DUANE MICHALS
Duane Michals, who is contributing to Vogue Hommes for the first time, is 87. It’s hard to be believe, as this mischievous bundle of energy, talking to us from New York, still has an incredible freshness and vitality. For certain observers, he is one of the great conceptual minds of the 20th century. His photographic series, or sequences, covered in words and poems, let the light devour the subject, and raise the question of man in the face of time passing, like no other. Barthes, Foucault and Bellour held him in high esteem. For others, he was an incredible portraitist, who refused to set up a studio and worked like an amateur. There was a portrait of Johnny Cash, for example, in which the singer was inside, in the shadow…