Ray Metzker

[Rob C]

I picked up on this guy in Leicaphilia.com.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Metzker

https://www.google.com/search?q=ray+metzker+imagenes&rlz=1C2PRFE_enES586ES586&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiG19GEiqfeAhXIVsAKHc_hByIQiR56BAgKEBY&biw=1262&bih=864

https://aperture.org/blog/anne-wilkes-tucker-ray-k-metzker-1931-2014/

I'm amazed that it took me all these years to come across his work.

Rob

[mecrox]

He’s marvellous, isn’t he. A contemporary photographer who follows a similar style is Rupert Vandervell.

[Kevin Raber]

He's a cool guy.  Miss him now.  I had him as a professor for two years at the Philadelphia College Of Art.  Incredible master of black and white.

[Telecaster]

I first saw Metzker's work around the same time as Fan Ho's, maybe even via the same source. I'd forgotten about him. Love his eye for geometry as well as contrast.

-Dave-

[RSL]

He "gets" the point that photography is a graphic medium.

[petermfiore]

He "gets" the point that photography is a graphic medium.

Graphically beautiful, indeed. Which means less dynamic range. How about that. Almost a sin today!

Peter

[Rob C]

Graphically beautiful, indeed. Which means less dynamic range. How about that. Almost a sin today!

Peter

Not if you grew up with graded printing papers. Then, it's a tool, an option that only we magicians know anything about!

:-)

[Ivophoto]

I picked up on this guy in Leicaphilia.com.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Metzker

https://www.google.com/search?q=ray+metzker+imagenes&rlz=1C2PRFE_enES586ES586&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiG19GEiqfeAhXIVsAKHc_hByIQiR56BAgKEBY&biw=1262&bih=864

https://aperture.org/blog/anne-wilkes-tucker-ray-k-metzker-1931-2014/

I'm amazed that it took me all these years to come across his work.

Rob

He surely knows what clair obscur is.

[petermfiore]

Not if you grew up with graded printing papers. Then, it's a tool, an option that only we magicians know anything about!

:-)

We are a breed soon to be, all but extinct.

Peter

[cgarnerhome]

He was a student of Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.  I see a lot of Callahan's influence in Metzker's work but he found his own unique way.