Ray K. Metzker

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“To Show Our World Now”: The Midcentury Photographers Who Balanced Reportage with Artistry

From W. Eugene Smith to Dorothea Lange, photography in the 1950s and ’60s was alive with the tensions between record and metaphor.
Ray K. Metzker, 63 CM-12, Early Philadelphia, 1963

Collapsing Time and Space in Black and White

Ray K. Metzker spent his career exploring the boundaries of photography in order to break them.

Anne Wilkes Tucker on Ray K. Metzker (1931-2014)

Anne Wilkes Tucker remembers the remarkable life and career of Ray K. Metzker (1931-2014).

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Aperture No. 257

Aperture presents “Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI,” a timely and urgent issue that explores how artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of photography and our broader culture of images.

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