Ray K. Metzker
Philadelphia

Philadelphia

© Estate of Ray K. Metzker, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Philadelphia
Philadelphia
ArtistAmerican, 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
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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