Oral history interview with Ray Metzker
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 8 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hrs., 46 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Metzker, Ray K.
label: Interviewer
content: Hunter, Anne S.
label: Names
content: Philadelphia College of Art
topic: label: Topic
content: Photography, Artistic -- United States
label: Topic
content: Photographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics, and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Metzker, Ray K.
label: Interviewer
content: Hunter, Anne S.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ray Metzker (1931- ) is a photographer from Philadelphia, Pa.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 152 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991 Apr. 30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.metzke91
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 4778 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Ray Metzker conducted 1991 Apr. 30, by Anne Schuster Hunter, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Metzker discusses his family and German heritage; childhood in Milwaukee, Wis.; early interest in photography; attending Beloit College; military service in Korea; studies at Illinois Institute of Technology; his series "My Camera and I in the Loop"; life in Chicago and traveling to Europe; moving to Philadelphia and teaching at the Philadelphia College of Art; his disenchantment with using the single image and moving into double frames; his landscapes of the 1980's; and his retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 1984.