The photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard defy convention: they have been called visionary, surrealistic, and meditative. Whatever the label, these evocative images of friends and family and the natural world around his home illustrate a delicate psychology of human interaction. Meatyard was trained as an optician, a profession that he maintained all his life in Lexington, Kentucky; he bought a camera in 1950 for the sole purpose of photographing his first-born son. But shortly thereafter, he joined the Lexington Camera Club ...
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The photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard defy convention: they have been called visionary, surrealistic, and meditative. Whatever the label, these evocative images of friends and family and the natural world around his home illustrate a delicate psychology of human interaction. Meatyard was trained as an optician, a profession that he maintained all his life in Lexington, Kentucky; he bought a camera in 1950 for the sole purpose of photographing his first-born son. But shortly thereafter, he joined the Lexington Camera Club and developed a friendship with his photography teacher Van Deren Coke, as well as a circle of local writers and photographers, including Guy Davenport, Thomas Merton, Wendell Berry, Jonathan Williams, and Minor White. Family and friends freely participated in Meatyard's staged and mysterious images, which often involve masks and abandoned spaces, and obliquely reference social, political, and cultural issues. A key subject in Meatyard's work is the natural environment, which is featured in his Light on Water series, in which long exposures seem to create calligraphic texts, and his No-Focus series, in which he deliberately photographed stems and twigs out of focus. In one of his last series titled Motion-Sound, the pictures were made by moving the camera gently, creating multiple exposures of the woodland scenes that suggest abstract sound patterns. The book accompanies an exhibition organized by ICP Assistant Curator Cynthia Young with acclaimed writer and Meatyard friend, Guy Davenport, who also wrote the text. Also included are the exhibition history, chronology, and bibliography.
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Very good. Good Minus condition overall. Heavy shelf-wear, including rubbing and a small chip to the front cover; repaired fold to back cover and last 20 pages or so.
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Very good. 4to, paperback. Vg+ condition. Very slight rubbing to covers; contents clean, no marking or writing. 34 full-page reproductions of the photographer's work. Notes, history of exhibitions, and a selected bibliography.
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Meatyard, Ralph Eugene. Very good(+) in very good jacket. Reminiscence by Guy Davenport. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. 136 pages, slim square 4to, black cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper lightly chipped and edgeworn. New York: Aperture, 1974. First edition. A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper. Scarce in hardcover.
