Metzker's photographs of sunbathers in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Sand Creatures Pa

Arts & Photography

Metzker, Ray K.

Metzker, R

Photography & Video

Aperture

Unknown Territory

Ray K. Metzker: Landscapes

One of the most inventive American photographers of the postwar era, Ray K. Metzker has startled and delighted viewers with his images for the past forty years. Ray K. Metzker: Landscapes collects the landscape images that Metzker has made throughout his career. The majority of the work in this volume dates from the last fifteen years, during which period Metzker has made many innovations and stretched the meaning and importance of the term "landscape" with images ranging in style from the traditional to the surreal. Ray K. Metzker: Landscapes incorporates twelve series of photographs, including "Feste di Foglie," made in Tuscany; the "Earthly Delights" series, made in the eastern United States; as well as work made in Turkey, southern France, and an extensive body of work from Moab, Utah, much of which is as yet unexhibited. A substantial essay by Evan H. Turner investigates Metzker's life and work and relates his photography to an art-historical tradition spanning the work of Turner, Boucher, Monet, Klimt, and many others. The book also includes a definitive chronology. Ray K. Metzker is the author of five books and the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bernheim Fellowship.

Philadelphia Museum Of Art

Turner, Evan H.

Individual Artists

Ray K. Metzker's stunning streetscapes are captured in this celebration of the photographer's work. These black-and-white photographs, taken over a quarter century and presented here by visual themes, show Metzker pushing the technical boundaries of photography into an undefined formal realm well beyond the expected. Photographs demonstrate Metzker's command of light and shade: four figures wait pensively at a bus stop, as though caged in glass, staring boldly into a wedge of bright light; a lone woman stands outside a train station, engulfed in an ominous stripe of inky shadow, with only the white of her necklace and a folded newspaper as talismans to ward off the darkness. Whether the photographs capture people waiting to take action, or people already in motion, Metzker's technique estranges them from the lockstep rhythm of mundane activity, and makes them stand still - just for a moment. The result is a series of photographs that demands a reinterpretation of the city and its inhabitants.

City Stills

Miller, Laurence

Prestel Pub

First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 500 copies, signed and numbered on the colophon page by Metzker. Hardcover. Purple cloth-covered boards with title stamped in gray on cover and spine, with printed dust jacket embossed with an abstract automobile design. Photographs by Ray K. Metzker. Preface (in German and English) by Roland Angst. Essay (in German and English) by David Travis. Includes a biography and a list of plates illustrated with thumbnails. Designed by Roland Angst. 120 pp., with 79 tritone plates beautifully printed on heavy matt paper in Germany by Medialis, Offsetdruck GmbH, Berlin. 12-7/8 x 11-3/4 inches.

Ray K. Metzker: Automagic, Limited Edition

Travis, David

Angst, Roland

Only Photography

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