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Metzker-Madsen faces a new charge of assault after he bit a Harrison County jailer at 9 p.m. on Tuesday. The criminal complaint said the teen bit a female jailer on the hand and left marks.
Metzker has often cited these instructors as having a great impact on his artistic outlook and passion for photography. In a 1983 conversation with curator Anne Tucker, Metzker said, “their experience ...
Ray K. Metzker’s career, which spans six decades of inventive photography, is notable for its bold, graphic style. His longtime dealer, Laurence Miller agrees. “He always wanted to find ...
Metzker-Madsen, now 18, is on trial for the death of 5-year-old Dominic Elkins, a boy whom with he was in foster care. Authorities believe the teen struck the boy with a brick while the two were ...
His lawyer is using an insanity defense. Authorities say Metzker-Madsen killed Dominic last year while the two were playing outside of their home near Logan. Metzker-Madsen was 17 at the time.
Metzker married Bella Stark, his secretary at the Forward, in 1944. The couple split their time between the Homecrest area of South Brooklyn and Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Evany José Metzker's body was found outside the town of Padre Paraíso, in the northeast of Brazil's southeastern Minas Gerais state. According to local media reports he had been stripped half ...
Ray K. Metzker, a modernist photographer who called himself “an intellectual wanderer” and proved it over six decades of audacious experiment — he sometimes overlapped exposures to make a ...
Metzker-Madsen had said the two were "playing bricks," according to the criminal complaint in the case. Prosecutors today played a video of the late-night interview the teen gave to two state ...
Metzker grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the 1930s and 1940s. His mother gave him his first camera when he was 12, and he began experimenting with a Kodak developing kit, combing Life and Look ...
Metzker took a job at the Philadelphia College of Art in 1962 and taught there for 20 years. He earned two Guggenheim fellowships and has continued to exhibit regularly, but boldface status in the ...