Couplet: Atlantic City, 1968 (68 CU 6a/7)
Couplet: Atlantic City, 1968 (68 CU 6a/7)
Artist
Ray Krueger Metzker
American, 1931 - 2014
Date1968
DimensionsOverall: 8 x 9 15/16 in. (20.3 x 25.2 cm)
Mediumsilver print
ClassificationPhotographs
Credit LinePurchased with funds given by an anonymous donor
Object number
1984.14
Not on View
Collections
Exhibition HistorySmithsonian American Art Museum (National Museum of Fine Art), Washington, D.C. 1984-86.
- Works on Paper
Atlanta, Georgia. The High Museum of Art. 1984-84.
Art Institute of Chicago. 1984-86.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. 1984-86.
International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. 1984.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. 1984-86.
Label TextRay Metzker uses a dual frame in Couplet: Atlantic City, producing a serial image on one sheet of photographic paper. The formal arrangement of figures, shadows, and patterns in each image and the relationships between the two frames is analytically composed, but emotionally expressive.
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