Rudy Burckhardt
Born: 1914-04-05 in Basel, Switzerland
Died: 1999-08-01
Known For: Directing
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."
Filmography
2003
1999
- On Aesthetics ... (Director)
- Scattered Showers ... (Director)
1995
- Tree Streets ... (Director)
1992
- Wayward Glimpses ... (Director)
1991
- Night Fantasies ... (Director)
- Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box as Self
- Rubble Dance ... (Editor)
1989
- Ostensibly ... (Director)
- Great Regular Flavor ... (Director)
1987
- Zipper ... (Director)
1986
- In Bed ... (Director)
- Dancers, Buildings and People in the Street ... (Director)
1985
- Central Park in the Dark ... (Director)
- The Nude Pond ... (Director)
1983
- Untilted ... (Director)
- Indelible, Inedible ... (Director)
1982
- All Major Credit Cards ... (Director)
1981
- Cerveza Bud ... (Director)
- Yvonne Jacquette Painting "Autumn Expansion" ... (Director)
1980
- Julie ... (Director)
- Sonatina and Fugue ... (Director)
- Rads on Wheels ... (Director)
1979
- Mobile Homes ... (Director)
1978
- Six Days ... (Director)
- Little Red Riding Hood ... (Director)
- Alex Katz Painting ... (Director)
1977
- Good Evening Everybody ... (Director)
1976
- Sodom and Gomorrah, NY, 10036 ... (Director)
1975
- Saroche ... (Director)
- The Bottle of the Bulge ... (Director)
- Default Averted ... (Director)
1974
- Landscape Bodydwelling ... (Cinematography)
- Body - Earth ... (Director)
- Sunline ... (Director of Photography)
- City Pasture ... (Director)
- Dwellings Winter ... (Director)
1973
- Caterpillar ... (Director)
1972
- Doldrums ... (Director)
- Slipperella ... (Director)
1971
- Inside Dope ... (Director)
1970
- Summer ... (Director)
- Made in Maine ... (Director)
1969
- Tarzam ... (Director)
- One Flight Up ... (Director)
1968
- Money ... (Director)
1967
- For Life, Against the War ... (Director)
- The Apple ... (Director)
- Square Times ... (Director)
1966
- Daisy ... (Director)
1965
- Lurk ... (Director)
- A Legend for Fountains ... (Cinematography)
1964
- Miracle on the BMT ... (Director)
1962
- Shoot the Moon ... (Director)
1961
- Millions in Business as Usual ... (Director)
1958
- Seraphina's Garden ... (Cinematography)
1957
- Angel ... (Cinematography)
- Nymphlight ... (Cinematography)
- Children ... (Cinematography)
1956
- What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street ... (Director)
1955
- The Aviary ... (Director)
- The Aviary (Short Sound Version) ... (Cinematography)
- Joanne, Union Square ... (Cinematography)
1954
- The Automotive Story ... (Director)
1953
- Eastside Summer ... (Director)
- Under the Brooklyn Bridge ... (Director)
- A Day in the Life of a Cleaning Woman ... (Director)
1950
- Mounting Tension ... (Director)
1946
- Up and Down the Waterfront ... (Director)
1943
- Trinidad ... (Director)
1941
- Montgomery, Alabama ... (Director)
1940
- Pursuit of Happiness ... (Director)
- The Uncle's Return ... (Director)
1938
- Haiti ... (Director)
1937
- Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y. ... (Camera Operator)
1936
- 145 W. 21 ... (Director)