Rudy Burckhardt (rojen 6. aprila 1914, Basel, Švica - umrl 1. avgusta 1999, Searsmont, Maine, ZDA), ameriški fotograf, slikar in filmski umetnik, rojen v Švicarju, ki velja za enega najvplivnejših vizualnih umetnikov posta. - doba druge svetovne vojne. Njegovi glavni subjekti so bili arhitektura in ljudje New Yorka.
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Burckhardta je fotografija očarala že v rani mladosti, pri 15 letih je zgradil luknjičast fotoaparat. Leta 1935 se je po podobni fotografiji Pariza preselil v New York City, kamor so v njegov krog prijateljev prišli umetniki, kot so Willem de Kooning, Paul Bowles in Aaron Copland. Burckhardtova zgodnja ulična fotografija je značilna po nenavadnem kotu, ki je ujel množice ljudi od kolena navzdol, ko so se sprehajali po ulicah New Yorka. Fotografiral je tudi mestne nebotičnike, njegove oglase, časopisne časopise, brivnice in druge kraje in stvari, ki sestavljajo urbano krajino.
While he was an active photographer, Burckhardt became interested in filmmaking and made his first film in 1936. He shot his short films (none exceeded 30 minutes) with a 16-mm camera and collaborated with his large network of friends—poet and dance critic Edwin Denby and artists Red Grooms, Jane Freilicher, Joseph Cornell, Alex Katz, Yvonne Jacquette, and Larry Rivers, among them. Many of his films, like his photographs, focused on urban life (e.g., What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street [1956, with Cornell]; Central Park in the Dark, New York City [1985, with Charles Ives, Christopher Sweet, and Yoshiko Chuma and her School of Hard Knocks]). Burckhardt often incorporated a jazz soundtrack or poets—such as John Ashbery (Mounting Tension, 1950; Ostensibly, 1989), Kenneth Koch (In Bed, 1986), and Frank O’Hara (Automotive Story, 1954)—reading their poems aloud as narration.
Burckhardt served in the U.S. military during World War II and became a U.S. citizen in 1944. He often traveled to and worked in places such as Mexico and Trinidad, but during the fertile period after the war he became much better known for his black-and-white studies of New York than for images made elsewhere. Though his reputation stemmed primarily from his photographic work, Burckhardt also pursued painting in the 1940s and studied at the school of artist Amédée Ozenfant in 1948–49.In 1948 he had first exhibits for both his photography and his paintings.During the 1950s and’60s Burckhardt was employed as a photographer by gallerists such as Leo Castelli to document their gallery exhibitions and by ARTNews magazine, for which he photographed artists at work in their studios.
Beginning in 1956, Burckhardt spent most summers in Maine and pursued his art in New York during the remainder of the year. He began teaching filmmaking and painting in 1967 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, a position he held through 1975. By the time he committed suicide at age 85, Burckhardt had created some 100 films and was a well-known painter and photographer.
