Ray Metzker
| Ray Metzker | |
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| Born |
September 10, 1931 Milwaukee |
| Died | October 9, 2014 (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,National Endowment for the Arts and Royal Photographic Society.
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 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.
Metzker's work is held in the following public collections:
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