Young Soldiers Dream in the Garden of the Dead with Flowers Growing from Their Heads, 1995

Young Soldiers Dream in the Garden of the Dead with Flowers Growing from Their Heads, 1995

“During the Korean War I was a second lieutenant in armor. Luckily, I never saw combat. If I had gone to combat, I’m sure I would not have survived. This photograph is about all those innocent young men whose lives were wasted in battle. I see them underground with flowers growing from their heads.”
—Duane Michals

This image appeared in Aperture, issue 146, Winter 1997.
© Duane Michals
Courtesy DC Moore, New York

In celebration of Aperture’s seventieth anniversary, we are pleased to offer this limited-edition print as part of the seventy x seventy print sale. This sale offers a rare opportunity for art enthusiasts to collect original works by some of the most celebrated and influential photographers in the history of the medium while supporting Aperture. Each print is available in an edition of seventy, signed by the artist or estate-stamped. Proceeds from the sale benefit the artist and/or a designated charity of their choice, and provide support for Aperture’s not-for-profit publishing, educational, and public programs.

These works are available to collect through September 30 while prints in the edition remain available.

Image size: 9.4 x 6.1 inches
Paper size: 8 x 10 inches
Edition of 70 and 5 Artist’s Proofs
Archival pigment print

Signed and numbered by the artist on a label
Printed by Laumont Editions in New York.

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Black and white wood framing options are available for an additional $100.
Please allow an additional 3 weeks for framed orders to ship.
Mat dimensions: 10 x 12 inches
Frame dimensions: 11 x 13 inches

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Contact prints@aperture.org with any inquiries about the edition or questions regarding shipping.
An adult signature is required for delivery of all limited edition prints.

Duane Michals (born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, 1932) is one of the great photographic innovators of the last century, widely known for his work with series, multiple exposures, and text. Michals first made significant, creative strides in the field of photography during the 1960s. In an era heavily influenced by photojournalism, Michals manipulated the medium to communicate narratives. The sequences, for which he is widely known, appropriate cinema’s frame-by-frame format. Michals has also incorporated text as a key component in his works. Rather than serving a didactic or explanatory function, his handwritten text adds another dimension to the images’ meaning and gives voice to Michals’ singular musings, which are poetic, tragic, and humorous, often all at once.

Over the past five decades, Michals’ work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, hosted Michals’ first solo exhibition (1970). In 2019, The Morgan Library and Museum in New York exhibited a career retrospective of Michals‘ work The Illusions of the Photographer: Duane Michals at the Morgan. More recently, he had one-person shows at the Odakyu Museum, Tokyo (1999), and at the International Center of Photography, New York (2005). In 2008, Michals celebrated his 50th anniversary as a photographer with a retrospective exhibition at the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece, and the Scavi Scaligeri in Verona, Italy.