Unknown Territory

Ray K. Metzker
Unknown Territory

Photographs: Ray K. Metzker

Text: Anne Wilkes Tucker

Publisher: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / Aperture

143 pages

Year: 1984

ISBN: 0-89381-15>4-8

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 28,5 x 28,5 cm, b&w photographs. In very good condition other than edgewear and discoloration on the dust jacket. Text in English.

Ray K. Metzker was born in 1931 in Milwaukee. Photography became his passion after his mother gave him his first camera when he was 12. In 1953, he graduated from Beloit College in Wisconsin with a fine art degree. He earned a Master’s degree in 1959 at the Institute of Design, Chicago (which at that time was being referred to as the New Bauhaus and was considered one of the most important photography programs in the U.S.), where he studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. He taught for many years at the Philadelphia College of Art and also at the University of New Mexico. The Museum of Modern Art in New York gave him his first solo exhibition in 1967.

Published on the occasion of the major exhibition "Unknown Photographs by Ray K. Metzger," organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (November 17, 1984 -- January 29, 1985), and traveling to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (April 12 -- June 16, 1985), The Art Institute of Chicago (July 27 -- September 19, 1985), the Philadelphia Museum of Art (October 19, 1985 -- January 5, 1986), The High Museum of Art, Atlanta (March 22 -- May 4, 1986), the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York (June 6 -- August 10, 1986) and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (September 12 -- November 23, 1986).