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Burk Uzzle

Biker in a Mirror Black and White Photograph Gravure Print by Burk Uzzle, 1980
Biker in a Mirror Black and White Photograph Gravure Print by Burk Uzzle, 1980

Biker in a Mirror Black and White Photograph Gravure Print by Burk Uzzle, 1980

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Biker in a mirror black and white photograph Gravure print by Burk Uzzle 1980 Gravure print (1984, France).

Category

Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Prints

Materials

Paper

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Woodstock Cover

Burk UzzleWoodstock Cover, 1969

Unavailable

H 20 in W 24 in

Woodstock Cover

By Burk Uzzle

Located in Charlotte, NC

From an Open Edition Burk Uzzle has conducted a visual love affair with America for over six decades.

Category

1960s Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Danbury State Fair, Men and Women
Danbury State Fair, Men and Women

Danbury State Fair, Men and Women

By Burk Uzzle

Located in Charlotte, NC

From an Open Edition Burk Uzzle has conducted a visual love affair with America for over six decades.

Category

1970s Black and White Photography

Materials

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Mustang Girl

Burk UzzleMustang Girl, 2001

Unavailable

H 9 in W 9 in

Mustang Girl

By Burk Uzzle

Located in Charlotte, NC

From an Open Edition Burk Uzzle has conducted a visual love affair with America for over six decades.

Category

Early 2000s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Very Tall Boots

Burk UzzleVery Tall Boots, 1984

Unavailable

H 9 in W 9 in

Very Tall Boots

By Burk Uzzle

Located in Charlotte, NC

From an Open Edition Burk Uzzle has conducted a visual love affair with America for over six decades.

Category

1980s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Coppertone Girl

Burk UzzleCoppertone Girl, 1996

Unavailable

H 9 in W 9 in

Coppertone Girl

By Burk Uzzle

Located in Charlotte, NC

From an Open Edition Burk Uzzle has conducted a visual love affair with America for over six decades.

Category

1990s Black and White Photography

Family Named Spot

Burk UzzleFamily Named Spot, 1997

Unavailable

H 9 in W 9 in

Family Named Spot

By Burk Uzzle

Located in Charlotte, NC

From an Open Edition Burk Uzzle has conducted a visual love affair with America for over six decades.

Category

1990s Black and White Photography

Woodstock (man and pipe, naked woman)

Woodstock (man and pipe, naked woman)

By Burk Uzzle

Located in New York, NY

In 1969, when Burk Uzzle was asked by Newsweek to cover the Woodstock Music Festival. he declined, preferring to photograph the event with his own vision.

Category

1960s American Modern Nude Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Woodstock (woman carrying child)

Woodstock (woman carrying child)

By Burk Uzzle

Located in New York, NY

In 1969, when Burk Uzzle was asked by Newsweek to cover the Woodstock Music Festival. he declined, preferring to photograph the event with his own vision.

Category

1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Woodstock (line of cars)

Woodstock (line of cars)

By Burk Uzzle

Located in New York, NY

In 1969, when Burk Uzzle was asked by Newsweek to cover the Woodstock Music Festival. he declined, preferring to photograph the event with his own vision.

Category

1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Woodstock (nude bathers)

Woodstock (nude bathers)

By Burk Uzzle

Located in New York, NY

In 1969, when Burk Uzzle was asked by Newsweek to cover the Woodstock Music Festival. he declined, preferring to photograph the event with his own vision.

Category

1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Woodstock (girl with hay bales)

Woodstock (girl with hay bales)

By Burk Uzzle

Located in New York, NY

In 1969, when Burk Uzzle was asked by Newsweek to cover the Woodstock Music Festival. he declined, preferring to photograph the event with his own vision.

Category

1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Woodstock (crowds)

Burk UzzleWoodstock (crowds), 1969

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H 6.63 in W 9.75 in

Woodstock (crowds)

By Burk Uzzle

Located in New York, NY

In 1969, when Burk Uzzle was asked by Newsweek to cover the Woodstock Music Festival. he declined, preferring to photograph the event with his own vision.

Category

1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Woodstock (child with nude woman)

Woodstock (child with nude woman)

By Burk Uzzle

Located in New York, NY

In 1969, when Burk Uzzle was asked by Newsweek to cover the Woodstock Music Festival. he declined, preferring to photograph the event with his own vision.

Category

1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Woodstock (girl standing in mud)

Woodstock (girl standing in mud)

By Burk Uzzle

Located in New York, NY

In 1969, when Burk Uzzle was asked by Newsweek to cover the Woodstock Music Festival. he declined, preferring to photograph the event with his own vision.

Category

1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Desert Prada, Texas

Desert Prada, Texas

By Burk Uzzle

Located in New York, NY

Burk Uzzle’s "Desert Prada, Texas" has become one of his most iconic images, capturing in the early morning desert light the renowned sculpture by the two German conceptual artists E...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

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Burk Uzzle was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1938. His career received its first major impetus in 1962, when Life magazine hired him as the youngest ever photographer to work for them. For many years, Uzzle continued to produce work for Life as well as other publications worldwide. Some of his most notable work during this time included coverage of the Martin Luther King funeral in 1968 (Newsweek used one of his images as their cover photo that week), as well as his Woodstock work. But his photographic work went beyond photojournalism. His first book in 1971 featured his American landscape work. Later in the 70s, he began experimenting with still-life photography. In 1984, another monograph, All American, was published. Museum shows followed, including solo shows at the Chicago Art Institute in 1971, the Philadelphia Museum in 1984 and the Chrysler Museum in 1992. In 2016, Uzzle’s work was featured in triple-venue exhibitions in his home state of North Carolina, at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh at the Ackland Museum of Art, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham. Uzzle’s work is included in the holdings of many prominent museum and private collections, including the Library of Congress, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and the private Margulies collection in Miami and Bidwell Projects in Ohio.

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