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63 MC-30
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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- 1963
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 90cc6127-ae94-434b-a097-bc177297696f
A city street, nearly empty except for a man in a trench coat and hat at the center. The street is mostly in shadow, with bright highlights accentuating the back of a freight truck, the man, and the columns at street level of a building, creating a dramatic contrast between light and dark.
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