Ray K. Metzker

Film Noir 6 May - 4 August 2023 Galería Alta is honored to present an exhibition of Ray K. Metzker, one of the great masters of American photography.

Ray K. Metzker finely crafted black and white prints that probe expressive potential through single, multiple and composite images, high contrast and selective focus.

Metzker's work is part of a revered tradition that emerged from the experimental approach of Chicago's Institute of Design, where he received his graduate degree in 1959. Inspired by instructors Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, Metzker fashioned an entirely personal synthesis of formal elegance, technical precision, and optical innovation.

Metzker's devotion to photographic seeing as a process of discovery is also deeply humanistic in its illumination of isolation and vulnerability. He is considered a virtuoso and a unique master of light.

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