Art: Photography
Rudy Burckhardt
- When
Sep 23, 2008 – Jan 4, 2009
Tuesdays–Thursdays (9:30am–5:30pm)
Fridays–Saturdays (9:30am–9pm)
Sundays (9:30am–5:30pm)
- Where
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St, 212.535.7710) Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
- Price
- $20
- Details
- http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7BBACE9B8A-0E1D-459C-834A-8C0FAF8194F9%7D
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While Weegee always set his aperture for shocking front-page shots, fellow émigré photographer Rudy Burckhardt captured Gotham's more quotidian spectacles. Equipped with an outsider's eye for unseen angles, the Swiss-born lensman documented our city's mid-century street scenes with an omnivorous appetite — everything within his viewfinder was snapped up. New York, N. Why? consists of 67 beautiful black-and-white documents of the metropolis' holy trinity: fleet-footed pedestrians, barrages of ads, and groups of huddled buildings. Burckhardt's images set most subjects in a glossy light, so that both art-deco highrises and rundown storefronts are imbued with a lovely, ruminative quality.
– Jason Jude Chan
