Rudy Burckhardt

Biography

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."

Directed

1. Pursuit of Happiness (1940) — Director
2. The Aviary (1955) — Director
3. Haiti (1938) — Director
4. Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y. (1937) — Director
5. All Major Credit Cards (1982) — Director
6. Mounting Tension (1950) — Director
7. Body - Earth (1974) — Director
8. On Aesthetics (1999) — Director
9. For Life, Against the War (1967) — Director
10. What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street (1956) — Director
11. Six Days (1978) — Director
12. Rubble Dance (1991) — Director
13. Montgomery, Alabama (1941) — Director
14. Shoot the Moon (1962) — Director
15. Night Fantasies (1991) — Director
16. Default Averted (1975) — Director
17. 145 W. 21 (1936) — Director
18. Sodom and Gomorrah, NY, 10036 (1976) — Director
19. Caterpillar (1973) — Director
20. Square Times (1967) — Director
21. Scattered Showers (1999) — Director
22. A Day in the Life of a Cleaning Woman (1953) — Director
23. Money (1968) — Director
24. Cerveza Bud (1981) — Director
25. Trinidad (1943) — Director
26. The Apple (1967) — Director
27. Doldrums (1972) — Director
28. Lurk (1965) — Director
29. Julie (1980) — Director
30. Ostensibly (1989) — Director
31. Eastside Summer (1953) — Director
32. Inside Dope (1971) — Director
33. Under the Brooklyn Bridge (1953) — Director
34. One Flight Up (1969) — Director
35. Untilted (1983) — Director
36. Dancers, Buildings and People in the Street (1986) — Director
37. Millions in Business as Usual (1961) — Director
38. Wayward Glimpses (1992) — Director
39. The Uncle's Return (1940) — Director
40. Saroche (1975) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box (1991) — Self
2. Rudy Burckhardt: Man in the Woods (2003) — Self