Description: Sale!!! Mega RARE! Unique!!! Ray K. Metzker - Parking Washington 1964, Old Authentic Original Drawing Offset Print Beautiful Famous photo! Washington, D.C., 1964 Print made in 2000 by a former art printer - Archival model Imprimeur duotone print enhanced with gloss varnish This print was found in the depths of an assembly workshop in the archive lockers of a former art printing works, preciously kept flat and protected from light in an envelope. Although it is old with its 21 years of age, it has remained in a good state of conservation. Presence of traces of dirt and marks on the back due to manipulations by the printer. On the other hand, the front is intact, in perfect condition and of a remarkable shine. This copy was kept by the printer in order to serve as a reference for its setting and coloring on the machine during reprints. Print size: 18.8 cm x 12.8 cm Ray K. Metzker seeks in the streets of Chicago, Philadelphia, or those of Washington, the subtle balance between the dark and light sides of things, the urban space is his playground in order to translate it in multiple ways, this day there, in 1964, he made this image, a parking lot with three cars pointing their noses, an image designed with a plumb line and a ruler, in a geometric way. Since the beginning of his career, light has revealed to him the most important thing in his work, he seeks in each of his images, to achieve synthesis and complexity rather than simplicity. The streets in his darkroom are transformed into abstract flat areas with black and white that remain his palette. He never gives in to color or large format which are fashionable and works only with film. His images are a fragmented reality, akin to musical scores of blacks and whites, where the negative becomes the positive. “The street is a privileged scene of human interactions. First, I carefully observe everything that happens there, the device turned towards the ground. Then I pick it up and take an interest in the movement, in the flow of men and women who appear and disappear, in this pulsation. » Ray K. Metzker Under the influence of the raw photography of William Klein, he preserved himself from an overly graphic and aesthetic style, all his life he never stopped experimenting, overexposing, cropping or returning to his negatives. years later, he assembles his non-contiguous images by adding a black border between the two, the "Double Frame" or considers the film as a single negative for his "Composites", he constantly plays with the multiplicity, the variations of scale, framing, even inserting an object in front of the lens. He is known primarily for his photographs of black and white cityscapes, bold and experimental images as well as his large composites, assemblages of printed film strips and individual images. Considered a master of American photography, his creations of a visual force, his work gives pride of place to photography, in its black and white, its shadows and lights as well as its compositions, while eyeing experimentation, he devotes himself to multiple exposure, the superimposition of negatives as well as the juxtaposition of images. His photographs go through time, they are always current as their rendering is similar to the finesse of contemporary design. Ray K. Metzker (1931-2014) American photographer, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from a Protestant and conservative family, made up of three children, of whom he is the youngest, an accountant father, who dreams for her son of success in business, and of a mother monopolized by her handicapped eldest daughter. Very young at the age of 12, when his mother gave him his first camera, a Kodak Brownie, he immediately fell in love with photography. As a teenager, he did short reports for his school and for the local daily, the "Milwaukee Journal", drawing inspiration from the publications of Life magazine at the time. In 1953, having no photographic culture, he enrolled in the visual arts department of Fine Arts, at Beloit College in Wisconsin, it was there that he discovered the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, of Edward Weston and immediately adopted the Leica camera, successfully graduating from it. In 1954, he was called up and went to Korea or there, he led photo workshops for the army and twenty-one months, made a request to be reformed to be able to continue his studies. He attempted and passed the entrance exam to the "Institute of Design" in Chicago, which at the time was called the "New Bauhaus", being considered one of the most important photographic schools, he followed courses, being the student of photographers, Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, obtaining his Master's degree in 1959. In order to carry out his end-of-study work, he equipped himself with a Leica and a Rolleiflex, surveyed the Chicago Loop, a downtown district surrounded by metro lines and produced a series entitled "My Camera and I in The Loop”, composed of one hundred and nineteen prints, immediately attracting the attention of the director of the photographic department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Edward Steichen, who bought ten copies from him. “The Loop offered multiple possibilities. It also gave me a feeling of freedom, of mobility in my explorations. I could be a fly on the wall, watching the street and remaining as anonymous as possible. »Ray K. Metzker Barely out of school, it was the same year, in 1959, that the Art Institute of Chicago devoted his first personal exhibition to him, far from photojournalism or Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moment", he was immediately hailed by his peers, while remaining modest, to the point of being reluctant to go to his own openings. In 1960, after higher education, he traveled through Europe, for a year, there he discovered the light of the Mediterranean. He is married to photographer Ruth Thorne-Thomsen. In 1962 he moved to Philadelphia. Subsequently, he taught for many years at the College of Art in Philadelphia and at the University of New Mexico. In 1967, the Museum of Modern Art in New York devoted his first personal exhibition to him. In 1985, in Tuscany, he became interested in landscape, and translated it into a series he called "Feste di Foglie. » In more than 60 years of career, he is the subject of more than fifty personal exhibitions in the greatest museums of the world, and receives numerous prizes, including a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Royal Photographic Society. His works are in the collections of more than forty institutions and are the subject of more than ten monographs, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne and the Albertina in Vienna. Sale as is, no return. Also please a look my sales list thanks a lot to the following photographers Edward Weston Daido Moriyama Araki Josef Koudelka Saul Leiter Ray K Metzker Paolo Roversi Helmut Newton, Henri Cartier-Bresson Ernst Haas Harry Gruyaert Annie Leibovitz Peter Lindbergh Guy Bourdin Richard Avedon Herb Ritts, Ellen Von Unwerth Comme des Garçons Rei Kawakubo Irving Penn, Bruce Weber, Edward Steichen, George Hoyningen-Huene, Hiro, Erwin Blumenfeld Bruce Weber, Alex Webb Robert Frank Issey Miyake Robert Doisneau Steve Hiett Gueorgui Pinkhassov Andy Warhol Yayoi Kusama Magnum photos Harry Callahan Andre Kertesz Elliott Erwitt Bruce Davidson Guy Bourdin Steven Meisel, Martin Munkacsi Mario Giacomelli Bruce Gilden Sebastiao Salgado Sarah Moon
Price: 450 USD
Location: New York, New York
End Time: 2024-12-09T16:11:03.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Artist: Ray K. Metzker
Type: Old Authentic Original Drawing Offset Print
Year of Production: 2000
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
