Conversations with Rudy Burckhardt About Everything

Author: Simon Pettet

Publisher: Vehicle Editions (1987)

Conversations with Rudy Burckhardt includes an extensive interview with Simon Pettet and 22 photographs in duotone by the noted photographer, filmmaker and painter Rudy Burckhardt. The photographs, taken between 1930 and 1986, include his classic, much-admired image of the Flatiron Building, New York 1948, and photographs of rhapsodic beauty in Maine, gentle serenity in Naples, many humorous scenes (New York, Little Rock, Florence, etc.) and others. His images are all completely accessible and reflect his resolutely unpretentious style. The sprightly dialogue complements the photographs, with many discussed individually.

The publication of Conversations with Rudy Burckhardt in 1987 honored the occasion of three significant events in New York City. After decades of relative obscurity, Rudy Burckhardt¹s devoted underground following was joined by many newfound admirers as a result of a major retrospective of 67 of his films at the Museum of Modern Art, and, concurrently, an exhibition of photographs at Brooke Alexander Gallery and a show of paintings at Blue Mountain Gallery.