A Study on the Rene Magritte’s (coming and going) photo by Duane Michals

Modern times have created conditions where the arts are more closely linked, affecting and influencing each other. Artists influenced by each other strive to innovate and create a new look in their work. A deeper examination of the artwork and its critique will help the audience to have a better and deeper understanding of the work and the paratext. Photographer Duane Michals has made great use of these terms in his career. His interest in the work of surrealist artists has led his art to take on distinctive features. This research aims to analyze one of his photographs of painter Rene Magritte. The method of research is content analysis and the information is obtained through the library method. The results show that Michaels deliberately returns to the hidden world within himself and allows it to express itself. Magritte's (coming and going) photo shows the photographer's duality. Of course, the nature of Magritte's work was not without effect on how his portrait was created. This photo confirms Michals’s inspiration from the Magritte’s Mysteries of the Horizon painting.