Rudy Burckhardt (1914–1999)
Autor de Rudolph Burckhardt: An Afternoon In Astoria
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Rudy Burckhardt
Haiti [1938 film] 1 copia
Pursuit of Happiness, The 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Burckhardt, Rudolph
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1914-04-16
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1999-08-01
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Switzerland
USA - Lugar de nacimiento
- Basel, Switzerland
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Searsmont, Maine, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- suicide
- Lugares de residencia
- Basel, Switzerland
London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA
Haiti
Searsmont, Maine, USA - Ocupaciones
- artist
photographer
writer
filmmaker
painter
teacher - Relaciones
- Denby, Edwin (friend, former flatmate)
Schloss, Edith (former spouse)
Ozenfant, Amedee (teacher)
Jacquette, Yvonne (widow)
Burckhardt, Tom (offspring) - Organizaciones
- University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Miembros
- 62
- Popularidad
- #271,094
- Valoración
- 4.3
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 10
- Idiomas
- 1
Rudy Burckhardt—New York Moments is a rare collection of his photographs from the 1940s and 1950s. It includes not only street scenes and details of city life—“The tremendous difference in scale between the soaring buildings and the people in the street astonished me,” he wrote—but also the portraits he made of the New York School painters, most notably Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. As a photographer for ArtNews in the 1950s, Burckhardt had an insider’s view of the burgeoning art scene. But he also recognized the limits of photography—“a photograph, when it gets printed and comes out a picture, becomes like a fact, you know”—and turned his hand to filmmaking. For the rest of his career, photography and film would work together to capture his unique vision.
Including photographs, film stills, and interpretive essays, Rudy Burckhardt accompanies an exhibition of Burckhardt's work at the Kunstmuseum Basel in Basel, Switzerland, and is a fitting tribute to the Swiss photographer who most poignantly captured the energy of mid-century New York.… (más)