Ray Metzker

Ray Metzker
Born (1931-09-10)September 10, 1931
Milwaukee
Died October 9, 2014(2014-10-09) (aged 83)
Philadelphia
Nationality American
Education Institute of Design in Chicago
Occupation photographer
Awards Royal Photographic Society Honorary Fellowship

Ray K. Metzker (10 September 1931 – 9 October 2014) was an American photographer known for both his work in cityscape and landscape photography and for his large "composites", assemblages of printed film strips and single frames. His work is held in various public collections, he is the subject of eight monographs and received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,[1] National Endowment for the Arts[2][3] and Royal Photographic Society.[4]

Life and work

Metzker was born in Milwaukee and lived in Philadelphia.

He was a student of Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at the Institute of Design in Chicago. He taught for many years at the Philadelphia College of Art and[5] also taught at the University of New Mexico.

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.

Awards

Collections

Metzker's work is held in the following public collections:[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "All Fellows". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Annual Report 1975" (PDF). National Endowment for the Arts. p. 97. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Annual Report 1988" (PDF). National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  4. 1 2 "Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Award". Retrieved 13 August 2012.
  5. 1 2 Salisbury, Stephan (October 12, 2014). "Ray K. Metzker, 83, famed photographer". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
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