City Whispers: Philadelphia
Artist
Ray K. Metzker
(American, 1931 - 2014)
Date1983
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches (24.13 × 23.5 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 11 inches (35.56 × 27.94 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 11 inches (35.56 × 27.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1963
InscribedSignature
Signed in artist's hand
Back of Print
Markings83 GF-13 SG 3 g/8-85
Edition/State/Proofed. 12/30
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Twentieth-Century Photographers: Selections from the HPC. Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, March 28 - April 27, 1996, no cat.
The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 15 - June 5, 2011, no cat.
Ray Metzker's black and white photographs strike a unique balance between formal brilliance, optical innovation and a deep human regard for the objective world. A student at the acclaimed Institute of Design in Chicago in the late 1950s, Metzker studied with the legendary teaching team of Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan. In this urban street scene, Metzker brilliantly divides the picture into two separate but related components, creating a powerful interplay of opposites: light and shadow, black and white, male and female.
Copyright© Estate of Ray K. Metzker
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