Rudy Burckhardt, (lahir 6 April 1914, Basel, Switzerland - meninggal 1 Ogos 1999, Searsmont, Maine, AS), jurugambar, pelukis, dan pembuat filem kelahiran Amerika Switzerland yang dianggap antara artis visual yang paling berpengaruh dalam jawatan tersebut -Era Perang Dunia II. Subjek utamanya adalah seni bina dan orang-orang di New York City.
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Burckhardt terpesona dengan fotografi pada usia dini, membangun kamera lubang jarum ketika berusia 15 tahun. Pada tahun 1933, dia pergi ke London untuk memulakan pengajian perubatan, tetapi dia segera pulang ke rumah — walaupun belum sampai banyak membuat kajian fotografi mengenai pemandangan kota London. Pada tahun 1935, setelah memotret Paris dengan cara yang sama, dia pindah ke New York City, di mana lingkaran temannya datang untuk memasukkan artis seperti Willem de Kooning, Paul Bowles, dan Aaron Copland. Fotografi jalanan awal Burckhardt terkenal dengan sudut yang tidak biasa, yang menarik banyak orang dari lutut ke bawah ketika mereka berjalan di jalan-jalan di New York City. Dia juga memotret pencakar langit kota, iklannya, gerai surat khabar, kedai gunting rambut, dan tempat-tempat lain dan benda-benda yang membentuk lanskap bandar.
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.
