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Composites: Nude
Creator
Ray K. MetzkerAmerican Artist · 1931–2014
All works by this person →Ray K. Metzker's work is at once richly varied in approach and rigorously unified in creative sensibility, revealing his simultaneous interests in the reality of the world and the inventive potential of the photographic process. Born in Milwaukee, WI, in 1931, Metzker graduated with a B.A. in art from Beloit College in 1953 and three years later enrolled in the Master's program at Chicago's Bauhau
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- negatives 1966; prints 1984
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Ray Metzker is best known for his *Composites* , images stemming from his insight that a single work could be created from an entire roll of film. The works function on multiple levels. From a distance, they read as abstract, graphic tapestries. Close viewing reveals them to be composed of a series of individual "documentary" vignettes, which can be read both simultaneously and sequentially. These works hold an important status in the history of creative photography: at the time of their making, they were unprecedented in ambition and perceptual complexity.
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