Rudy Burckhardt

Rudy Burckhardt is the first artist mentioned in a New York Times review of "Subterranean Monuments: Burckhardt, Johnson, Hujar" at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Back in 2006, the exhibition page had only a few images and it's no longer available. The article in the NYT does give a short biography of Burckhardt.

A Google search found an excellent website for a MOMA 2002 exhibition of A Walk through Astoria and Other Places in Queens: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt. This is truly a wonderful and well set up website, except that it is not evident when you first click the 'enter' button that there are two exhibits.

For "An Afternoon in Astoria" you are able to leaf through the pages of the photograph album and zoom in and out with ease (as long as you are using a browser that recognizes that it has a Flash viewer).

Once you are in the album, you can see that there is also a film "Under the Brooklyn Bridge" which is set up so that you can watch film stills and clips from two sequences. Depending on which exhibit you are watching, there are really two 'introductions' to the shows.

Also found on a Google search - Rudy Burckhardt’s Maine - "An exhibition of photographs, paintings, and films presented by the New York Studio School in 2003". This is another example of a very good exhibition site which has been maintained past the closure of the physical exhibition.