The Photographs of Ray K Metzker March 3, 2011

Approaching 80 years of age, Ray Metzker is one of the most dedicated, innovative, and influential American photographers of the last half century. His work is at once varied in approach and rigorously unified in creative sensibility: he is interested in both the reality of the world and in the inventive potential of the photographic process itself. Thanks to a 2009 gift from the Hall Family Foundation, the Nelson-Atkins now has the largest institutional holding of Metzker's work (92 prints) in the country.