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)
- Rubble Dance ... (Editor)
- Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box as Self
1989
- Great Regular Flavor ... (Director)
- Ostensibly ... (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)
- Alex Katz Painting ... (Director)
- Little Red Riding Hood ... (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 ... (Camera Operator)
- City Pasture ... (Director)
- Sunline ... (Director of Photography)
- Body - Earth ... (Director)
- Dwellings Winter ... (Director)
1973
- Caterpillar ... (Director)
1972
- Slipperella ... (Director)
- Doldrums ... (Director)
1971
- Inside Dope ... (Director)
1970
- Summer ... (Director)
- Made in Maine ... (Director)
1969
- Tarzam ... (Director)
- One Flight Up ... (Director)
1968
- Money ... (Director)
1967
- The Apple ... (Director)
- Square Times ... (Director)
- For Life, Against the War ... (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
- Children ... (Cinematography)
- Angel ... (Cinematography)
- Nymphlight ... (Cinematography)
1956
- What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street ... (Director)
1955
- The Aviary ... (Director)
- Joanne, Union Square ... (Cinematography)
- The Aviary (Short Sound Version) ... (Cinematography)
1954
- The Automotive Story ... (Director)
1953
- Under the Brooklyn Bridge ... (Director)
- Eastside Summer ... (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
- The Uncle's Return ... (Director)
- Pursuit of Happiness ... (Director)
1938
- Haiti ... (Director)
1937
- Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y. ... (Camera Operator)
1936
- 145 W. 21 ... (Director)