Aanbieding Rudy Burckhardt – Lopate, Phillip

The poet John Ashbery wrote of Rudy Burckhardt in 1980: “Before there was an underground, there was Rudy Burckhardt. The genial, Swiss-born jack-of-all-trades and master of several has remained unsung for so long that he is practically a subterranean monument.” Since that time Burckhardt’s reputation has steadily grown – as photographer, filmmaker, and painter – beyond Manhattan’s downtown community of artists in which he lived and worked. For six decades Rudy Burckhardt (1914-1999) was a discreet, but endu…