Ray Metzker's Chicago photos,taken during the mid-20th Century, capture a grey, dusty city, haunting in its geometry. Metzker's Chicago is place of secret loneliness, dreary urbanity and action. His black and white images are odes to post-war Chicago, before the city got fancy.
See Ray Metzker's work at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
Fantastic timing! I've been trolling the MoCP archives of RKM's work over the past week.. his half-frame 'Composites' are mind-blowing, a true inspiration. When you gonna profile Barbara Crane?
ReplyDeleteThanks Cale! Now hows about we grab a beer and discuss documentary photographers of the 20th century.
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