{"id":1443,"date":"2026-06-11T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:05:00","slug":"duane-michals-on-his-photograph-of-an-unknown-meryl-streep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"Duane Michals on His Photograph of an Unknown Meryl Streep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/10456\/duane-michals-interview-portrait-new-york-meryl-streep?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=duane-michals-on-his-photograph-of-an-unknown-meryl-streep\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/370\/2\/372352.jpg\" alt=\"p2-3_DMP\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was first published on 20 December 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to remember a moment when <strong>Meryl Streep<\/strong> wasn\u2019t the most celebrated actress in the world. But when photographer Duane Michals shot her in 1975 in New York\u2019s theatre district, she was entirely unknown, a recent graduate from Yale School of Drama who hadn\u2019t yet made a film.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe picture was taken before she was famous,\u201d Michals remembers. \u201cI had simply been told she was super talented and bighellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/10456\/duane-michals-interview-portrait-new-york-meryl-streep?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=duane-michals-on-his-photograph-of-an-unknown-meryl-streep\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/9300\/duane-michals\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=duane-michals-on-his-photograph-of-an-unknown-meryl-streep\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-2966-1977\/azure\/another-prod\/370\/2\/372352.jpg\" alt=\"p2-3_DMP\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/9300\/duane-michals\/1?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=duane-michals-on-his-photograph-of-an-unknown-meryl-streep\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-2981-1987\/azure\/another-prod\/370\/2\/372353.jpg\" alt=\"p8-9_DMP\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/9300\/duane-michals\/2?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=duane-michals-on-his-photograph-of-an-unknown-meryl-streep\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-2523-1682\/azure\/another-prod\/370\/2\/372354.jpg\" alt=\"p22-23_DMP\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/9300\/duane-michals\/3?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=duane-michals-on-his-photograph-of-an-unknown-meryl-streep\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-2941-1960\/azure\/another-prod\/370\/2\/372355.jpg\" alt=\"p38-39_DMP\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/9300\/duane-michals\/4?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=duane-michals-on-his-photograph-of-an-unknown-meryl-streep\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-2998-1999\/azure\/another-prod\/370\/2\/372356.jpg\" alt=\"p68-69_DMP\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/9300\/duane-michals\/5?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=duane-michals-on-his-photograph-of-an-unknown-meryl-streep\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-0-2993-1995\/azure\/another-prod\/370\/2\/372357.jpg\" alt=\"p77_DMP\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/9300\/duane-michals\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=duane-michals-on-his-photograph-of-an-unknown-meryl-streep\">View Gallery (10 images)<\/a>nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was first published on 20 December 2017. It\u2019s hard to remember a moment when Meryl Streep wasn\u2019t the most celebrated actress in the world. But when photographer Duane Michals shot her in 1975 in New York\u2019s theatre district,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}