Rudy Burckhardt

Birthday: 1914-04-05
Deathday: 1999-08-01
Birthplace: Basel, Switzerland
Gender: Male

Rudy Burckhardt (April 6, 1914 – August 1, 1999) is best known for his photography of New York and other cities. His signature image explores the quirks of modern urban life, in particular the exuberant life of the streets from the perspective of the pedestrian. He is also celebrated for canonical portraits of New York artists at work, and for his film and collaborations with leading artists, poets and musicians of the New York School. This exhibition, however, shows the private, meditative, less known side of Burkhardt's creative personality, what guest curator Vincent Katz describes as "that essential base of solace that facilitated the cosmpolitan flâneur."

Credits

Year Title
Six Days
1999-01-01 Scattered Showers
1999-01-01 On Aesthetics
1992-01-01 Wayward Glimpses
1991-09-01 Rubble Dance
1991-01-01 Night Fantasies
1989-01-01 Ostensibly
1987-10-06 Zipper
1986-08-14 In Bed
1986-01-01 Dancers, Buildings and People in the Street
1985-06-04 The Nude Pond
1983-07-24 Indelible, Inedible
1983-01-01 Untilted
1982-07-08 All Major Credit Cards
1981-01-01 Cerveza Bud
1980-01-29 Sonatina and Fugue
1980-01-01 Julie
1978-07-12 Alex Katz Painting
1978-07-10 Little Red Riding Hood
1977-09-13 Good Evening Everybody
1976-01-01 Sodom and Gomorrah, NY, 10036
1975-07-18 Saroche
1975-01-28 The Bottle of the Bulge
1975-01-01 Default Averted
1974-06-04 City Pasture
1974-01-01 Body - Earth
1974-01-01 Dwellings Winter
1973-01-01 Caterpillar
1972-02-10 Slipperella
1972-01-01 Doldrums
1971-01-01 Inside Dope
1970-02-03 Made in Maine
1970-02-03 Summer
1969-11-20 Tarzam
1969-01-01 One Flight Up
1968-06-15 Money
1967-01-30 For Life, Against the War
1967-01-01 Square Times
1967-01-01 The Apple
1966-07-07 Daisy
1965-04-15 Lurk
1964-06-09 Miracle on the BMT
1962-01-01 Shoot the Moon
1961-01-01 Millions in Business as Usual
1956-01-02 What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street
1955-12-31 The Aviary
1954-06-08 The Automotive Story
1953-01-01 A Day in the Life of a Cleaning Woman
1953-01-01 Eastside Summer
1953-01-01 Under the Brooklyn Bridge
1950-12-31 Mounting Tension
1943-01-01 Trinidad
1941-02-27 Montgomery, Alabama
1940-12-01 The Uncle's Return
1940-11-13 Pursuit of Happiness
1938-01-01 Haiti
1937-01-01 Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y.
1936-01-01 145 W. 21