Ray K. Metzker
The Loop: Chicago
1958, printed 1960
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Ray K. Metzker
The Loop: Chicago
1958, printed 1960
Physical Qualities
Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 203 x 252 mm. (8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Image: 145 x 212 mm. (5 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number
1988.451
Ray K. Metzker was one of the first students to receive a master’s degree from the Institute of Design, newly created in 1952. For his 1959 thesis, entitled “My Camera and I in the Loop,” Metzker limited himself to taking photographs within the confines of The Loop, the area of downtown Chicago defined by the circle of the elevated train tracks.
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Colelction," 17 September - 19 November, 1989.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
