Ray metzker photographer biography

Ray K. Metzker's Photographic Journey

Ray Metzker has repeatedly pushed an idea or a technique to the extreme, discovering its limits and its potential.

With the conclusion of each of these forays to the edge, he has changed course dramatically.

Metzker titles and groups his images based on their location or technique. Collectively his various series represent an artistic vision that merges the realities of modern life with the intrinsic expressive possibilities of the photographic medium.

Ray metzker photographer biography

Ray metzker photographer biography

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Chicago, 1956–59

Metzker attended the graduate program at the Institute of Design in Chicago, where he made his first sustained body of personal work, images of Chicago's business district. These pictures embody many of the formal concerns that would fascinate him for the next fifty years.