Our friend Tatiana Hopper has done it again. This time in her YouTube video “Stop Taking Boring Street Photos” she talks about the street photography of Ray K. Metzker.
Metzker is recognized as one of the great masters of American photography whose five decade career has gone unnoticed by so many of us.
In the 1960s Metzker’s work was shown in major American museums and the Museum of Modern Art gave him his first one-man show in 1967.
But what does Metzker’s photos have to offer us today?
As a street photographer he turned to experimental black and white cityscapes and found meaning and art in the urban landscape. Much of his work was shot in Philadelphia (a city somewhat similar in size and opportunity when it comes to photography as Toronto). Metzker treated the city like a puzzle of shapes, lines and repeated patterns.
Metzer called his own photography “an adventure in seeing.” That’s not a bad theme for our own work. It’s about seeing things differently.
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