Duane Michals, was a pioneer of American staged photography:
“The thing about working as a photographer by walking down the street with a camera looking for something to take a picture of – I did not have to do that because it was already in my head”
Michals did everything that had been banned among the modernists: he made cinematic, narrative sequences, he worked exclusively in his studio with staged models, he wrote stories under or directly at the pictures and he did not care about the technical aspect of photography at all.
The Bigger Picture 