Publisher/Nazraeli Press

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A collection of works by Rudy Burckhardt (1914-1999), a photographer and video artist born in Switzerland and active in the United States, "New York, N. Why?" ’. Born into an aristocratic family and a medical student in London, Burckhardt changed his career path when he encountered photography. In the early 1930s, before the war, he moved to New York, and since then he has continued creative activities that can be called "study of shapes and colors" such as snapshots and Luigi Gilli, with the theme of "city" as his lifework. was also active in the Photo League, of which Aaron Siskind and others were members. Burkhardt collaborated with Joseph Cornell in the 1950s, and taught photography and video production at the University of Pennsylvania from the 1960s. This is a collection of works that introduces the above-mentioned lifework of the early New York era, from the exploration of landscapes reminiscent of Atget and Evans, to the exploration of snapshots such as Ellen Levitt and Lisette Modelle. It is a book that is fascinated by the layout of the visual sequence.