About the American photographer, Ray METZKER (1931-2014)

Ray K. METZKER was an American photographer known chiefly for his bold, experimental black and white cityscapes and for his large 'composites', assemblages of printed film strips and single frames. He studied photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago as a student of Harry CALLAHAN and Aaron SISKIND. After graduate studies at the Institute of Design in Chicago, Metzker travelled extensively throughout Europe in 1960-61, where he had two epiphanies: that 'light' would be his primary subject, and that he would seek synthesis and complexity over simplicity. For many years he taught at the Philadelphia College of Art and also taught at the University of New Mexico. He received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and Royal Photographic Society. The work of ray K. METZKER is the subject of eight monographs.

Photo books by Ray K. METZKER

'Unkownn' (2014); 'Automagic' (2009); 'Notes de Lumiere' & 'Light Lines' (2008)


The photo volume 'Unknown' by Ray K. METZKER shows many previously unpublished black and white photographs and thus shows a previously largely unknown side of his oeuvre. It also contains an excerpt from Hans Henny Jahnn's novel 'Nacht aus Blei'.
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Subsequent to his first publication, 'City Stills', and great monograph, 'Light Lines', the strictly limited photo volume 'AutoMagic' is a book dedicated exclusively to American photographer Ray K. METZKER's black and white photography of the automobile.
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HC with dust jacket, 28 x 28 x 2 cm., 287 pp., 180 tritone b/w ills., tetx language: French
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