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Day Jobs

“I always had a sense of adventure,” says Duane Michals. “All my instincts were in place. All I needed to do was animate them.” But how?

On a high school summer break in 1947, at the age of fifteen, Michals convinced his parents to buy him a one-way bus ticket from

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