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 spent his career exploring the boundaries of photography in order to break them.
Anne Wilkes Tucker remembers the remarkable life and career of Ray K. Metzker (1931-2014).
Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.