https://coveringphotography.bc.edu/files/original/3/6619/Michals-Nealon72Box7.jpg e21f0e680d68b9a7a7f2a984db0d9fbe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Covering Photography Main Collection Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Photographer Photographer Michals, Duane Author Author of the book upon which the photograph appears Nealon, Christopher Book Genre Gay & Lesbian Studies Photograph Title Title of photograph The deep air (detail), from the series The Journey of the Spirit after Death Photo Genre Genre of Photograph Sequence Designer Designer of book cover Not listed Notes Notes associated with the item This cover illustration is a largish detail of one photo (The title, referential in nature, is The deep air, written in Duane Michals' cursive hand), image #17 of 27, from his slim book-length sequence, The Journey of the Spirit after Death, published in 1971. Michals is a pioneer of sequential, story-telling photography, metaphysical in that the most rigorous, unforgiving descriptor of the world - the straight, unmanipulated photograph - is employed to question the nature of 'objective' reality, and our inability to capture or describe it in anything more than the most reductive, superficial sense. In terms of the image's use as a cover for Foundlings, it is interesting to note that The Journey of the Spirit after Death was published in 1971, two years after the Stonewall riots. Michals, a gay man, born in 1932 and raised in the conservative, steel-mill city of Mckeesport PA (as was fellow artist, <a href="https://coveringphotography.bc.edu/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Bjoiner%5D=and&advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+empty&advanced%5B1%5D%5Belement_id%5D=58&advanced%5B1%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B1%5D%5Bterms%5D=Warhol%2C+Andy&collection=&type=&tags=&user=&public=&featured=&search=">Andy Warhol</a>), was not publicly out at the time, and remained closeted for some years afterward. To view an uncropped version of Duane Michals' photograph, click <a href="https://sis.modernamuseet.se/objects/40076/no-title-from-the-series-the-journey-of-the-spirit-after-de?ctx=3a0c0ff40bc2991c66162cd42750881ae709b755&idx=42">here</a>. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion Before Stonewall Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Duke University Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001