Ray K. Metzker - City Stills - 1999

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FANTASTIC BOOK AND SOUGHT-AFTER MONOGRAPH by the vastly under appreciated American photographer Ray K. Metzker.

Have a look at the beautiful pictures - MY HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION.

TRUE ORIGINAL FIRST ENGLISH PRINTING (published simultanously and identically in a German edition).

Urban American streetscapes, captured in black and white taken over a quarter century show Metzker pushing the technical boundaries of photography into an undefined formal realm well beyond the expected. Metker`s shots transform his subjects into visual patterns and a study in texture and pattterns and are a manifestation of his command of light and shade Whether the photographs capture people waiting to take action, or people already in motion, Metzker`s technique estrange them from the lockstep rhythm of mundane activity, and makes them stand still- just for a moment. The result is a series of photographs that demands a reinterpreptation of the city, its streetlife and its inhabitants.

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Prestel, Munich, London, New York. 1999. First English edition, first printing.

Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket. 245 x 305 mm. 96 pages. 78 duotone illustrations. Photos: Ray K. Metzker. Edited by Claudine Weber-Hof. Designed by Matthias Hauer. Printed by Sellier, Freising. Bound by Almesberger, Salzburg. Introduction: Laurence G. Miller. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside (protected by the jacket) excellent, very fresh and clean with no marks, with no foxing and smoking-free. Dustjacket complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts, but with trace of use; creases at the top left corner of the front cover, sensitive black rear side like so often with some scratches. Overall fine condition.

Great, very sought-after photobook by Ray K. Metzker - with the original dustjacket.

A Midwesterner by birth, Ray K. Metzker has been photographing since the age of fourteen. He graduated from Beloit College in Wisconsin and served in the U.S.
Army before enrolling in the graduate program at the Institute of Design in Chicago, where he studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.
Metzker, whose work has ranged through a number of interests, is most widely known for his explorations in cumulative imagery. He is the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1966 and 1979, and has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe.
His work is in the collections of numerous major museums in this country. He teaches at the Philadelphia College of Art.