Chicago
Sheet: 10 × 7 15/16 inches (25.4 × 20.16 cm)
The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker and the Institute of Design. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, September 1, 2012 - February 28, 2013, no. 3.
The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker. Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, September 22, 2013 - January 5, 2014, no. 3.
Placing his camera at street level, Ray Metzker chose discarded cardboard as the focal point for this photograph, putting the women crossing the street and surrounding buildings in the background out of focus. This unique vantage point positions the central woman in the photograph so that she is surrounded by bright light on this remarkably quiet street in downtown Chicago.
Metzker began photographing Chicago’s central business district in the late 1950s while studying photography with Harry Callahan at the Institute of Design.
Purchased from Laurence Miller Gallery by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2009;
Given by the Hall Family foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2009.
