Ray K. Metzker
Philadelphia

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Artist Ray K. Metzker American, 1931–2014

CultureAmerican

Titles

Philadelphia
from the series Autowackies

Date2009

Place depictedPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 11 1/4 × 19 7/8 in. (28.6 × 50.5 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of Ruth Thorne-Thomsen and Laurence Miller in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker on the occasion of her retirement

Object number2015.220

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionThroughout his career, Ray Metzker invented strategies of photographing the world in ways that would confound and delight viewers, including multiple exposures, serial images, split frames, and high-contrast printing. In this series from his final years, Metzker found a way to achieve that same exciting confusion of space in a single, straightforward shot, elegantly printed.
ProvenanceThe artist; Ruth-Thorne Thomson and Laurence Miller; given to MFAH, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed and numbered in graphite, verso: #3/10

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