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Rudy Burckhardt

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
2

Gender
Male

Birthday
April 5, 1914 (112 years old)

Place of Birth
Basel, Switzerland

Rudy Burckhardt

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."

Known For

Directing

1999Scattered Showers...Director
1999On Aesthetics...Director
1995Tree Streets...Director
1992Wayward Glimpses...Director
1991Rubble Dance...Director
1991Night Fantasies...Director
1989Ostensibly...Director
1989Great Regular Flavor...Director
1987Zipper...Director
1986In Bed...Director
1986Dancers, Buildings and People in the Street...Director
1985The Nude Pond...Director
1985Central Park in the Dark...Director
1983Indelible, Inedible...Director
1983Untilted...Director
1982All Major Credit Cards...Director
1981Cerveza Bud...Director
1981Yvonne Jacquette Painting "Autumn Expansion"...Director
1980Sonatina and Fugue...Director
1980Julie...Director
1980Rads on Wheels...Director
1979Mobile Homes...Director
1978Alex Katz Painting...Director
1978Little Red Riding Hood...Director
1978Six Days...Director
1977Good Evening Everybody...Director
1976Sodom and Gomorrah, NY, 10036...Director
1975Saroche...Director
1975The Bottle of the Bulge...Director
1975Default Averted...Director
1974City Pasture...Director
1974Body - Earth...Director
1974Dwellings Winter...Director
1973Caterpillar...Director
1972Slipperella...Director
1972Doldrums...Director
1971Inside Dope...Director
1970Made in Maine...Director
1970Summer...Director
1969Tarzam...Director
1969One Flight Up...Director
1968Money...Director
1967For Life, Against the War...Director
1967Square Times...Director
1967The Apple...Director
1966Daisy...Director
1965Lurk...Director
1964Miracle on the BMT...Director
1962Shoot the Moon...Director
1961Millions in Business as Usual...Director
1956What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street...Director
1955The Aviary...Director
1954The Automotive Story...Director
1953A Day in the Life of a Cleaning Woman...Director
1953Under the Brooklyn Bridge...Director
1953Eastside Summer...Director
1950Mounting Tension...Director
1946Up and Down the Waterfront...Director
1943Trinidad...Director
1941Montgomery, Alabama...Director
1940The Uncle's Return...Director
1940Pursuit of Happiness...Director
1938Haiti...Director
1937Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y....Director
1936145 W. 21...Director

Editing

1991Rubble Dance...Editor
1956What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street...Editor

Crew

1991Rubble Dance...Cinematography
1974Landscape Bodydwelling...Cinematography
1965A Legend for Fountains...Cinematography
1958Seraphina's Garden...Cinematography
1957Angel...Cinematography
1957Children...Cinematography
1957Nymphlight...Cinematography
1955The Aviary (Short Sound Version)...Cinematography
1955Joanne, Union Square...Cinematography

Camera

1974Landscape Bodydwelling...Camera Operator
1974Sunline...Director of Photography
1940Pursuit of Happiness...Director of Photography
1937Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y....Camera Operator
1937Seeing the World: Part One - A Visit to New York, N.Y....Director of Photography

Acting

2003Rudy Burckhardt: Man in the Woodsas Self
1991Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Boxas Self