Alice's+Mirror

Alice’s Mirror “Alice’s Mirror” is a series of six photographs. Everything is a picture within a picture. Each one is seen in the next but is smaller than it originally was. In the end, what started off as large ended up being small. I think that Duane Michals is trying to show that things seem different from different perspectives. What one person sees may be completely different from what someone else sees. In “Alice’s Mirror,” Duane Michals features the same objects but they are shown from different perspectives and therefore appear different. The first picture in this photograph reminds me of Alice in Wonderland when Alice had to change sizes various times because the glasses are bigger than the chair and in reality a chair should be much larger than a pair of glasses. There is also a high contrast in these pictures. It is in black and white scale so the blacks look very black and the whites look very white. In the fourth and fifth pictures, I find the mirror and what is seen in the mirror to stand out from the rest of the picture because they are a lot brighter. I think the emphasis is different for each picture. I find it to be the picture before it as the emphasis. For example, the emphasis in picture two is picture one, the emphasis in picture three is picture two, etc. I found the last picture to show something different than the other pictures. It seems like all of the other pictures are leading up to something and then in the last picture, whatever that something was is crushed.