Rudy Burckhardt
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Rudy Burckhardt was an Swiss-American filmmaker, and photographer, known for his photographs of hand-painted billboards which began to dominate the American landscape in the nineteen-forties and fifties.
in 1935.
He showed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
, New York University
.
Life
He immigrated to New York CityNew York City
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in 1935.
He showed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
, New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
.
External links
- "The Cinema of Looking", Jacket 21
- http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/b/rudy_burckhardt/index.html
- http://www.film-makerscoop.com/search/search.php?author=Rudolph+Burckhardt
- http://www.milkmag.org/burckhardt%20page.htm
- http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2002/burckhardt/