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Ralph Eugene Meatyard - Must Know Photographer
Groundbreaking photographer of the 1950s and 60s, based in Lexington Kentucky, Ralph Eugene Meatyard was unlike any of his contemporaries.
I KNOW I pronounced Federico Fellini incorrectly, so I apologize to anyone I might have offended!
For more info about this photographer, including links to resources and books, visit...
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published: 26 Jan 2022
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard - The Family Album - Photography
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, 1925–1972, was born in Normal, Illinois in 1925 and lived in Lexington, Kentucky, where he made his living as an optician. In 1954, Meatyard joined the Lexington Camera Club. Cranston Ritchie and Van Deren Coke, both members of the club, became important mentors and inspiring models in Meatyard’s work. Working outside of the photographic mainstream, Meatyard experimented with multiple exposures, motion blur, and other methods of photographic abstraction. Meatyard’s photographs often include family members enacting symbolic dramas, often set in abandoned places. His final series, The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater, completed shortly before he died in 1972, pays homage to his beloved family and talented friends. Monographs include A Fourfold Vision, Ralph Eugene Meat...
published: 29 Mar 2015
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Wildly Strange
artsincontext.org | blantonmuseum.org
Upon seeing Ralph Eugene Meatyard's eerie photographs, friend and artistic associate Hugh Kenner was struck by the "wildly strange" nature of the images. Often employing masks, dolls, and sometimes his own children set against abandoned buildings and other eerie backdrops, Meatyard's work differed from the documentary, photo-journalism approach that defined the mainstream definition of the photographer in the 1950s. Eschewing the expectation of “documentary truth,” Meatyard’s evocative photography sought to create something more akin to poetry. His photographs blur (often quite literally) the distinctions between literature and visual art, encouraging viewers to explore the role of fiction in the photographic images and their representation of realit...
published: 05 Jun 2015
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Ralph Eugene Meatyard (May 15, 1925-May 7, 1972) was an American photographer.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard's death in 1972, a week away from his 47th birthday, came at the height of the "photo boom," a period of growth and ferment in photography in the United States which paralleled the political and social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. It was a time of ambition, not reflection, a time for writing resumés, not thoughtful and inclusive histories; in the contest of reputation, dying in 1972 meant leaving the race early. It was left to friends and colleagues to complete an Aperture monograph on Meatyard and carry through with the publication of The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater (1974) which he had laid out and sequenced before his death. He was from Normal, Illinois.
While he lived Meatyar...
published: 01 Jun 2008
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Art of Photography Ralph Eugene Meatyard
published: 16 Nov 2013
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The Southern Gothic Photography of Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Ralph Eugene Meatyard is all surprises. He’s not what you’d expect as a person based on the photos he took.
For more info about this photographer, including links to resources and books, visit...
https://blog.zachdobson.com/resources/
For advice, tips and behind-the-scenes stuff, head to my blog...
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Find me on social media here...
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published: 31 Oct 2022
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💧 Top 8 Quotes of Ralph Eugene Meatyard - Photographer
Top 8 Quotes of Ralph Eugene Meatyard:
◉ I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had to learn to see No-focus from the beginning.
◉ Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at?
◉ I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.
◉ I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done.
◉ ... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can be, I think, so heartfelt that you almost ca...
published: 17 Apr 2019
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Black and White Photography - "Ralph Eugene Meatyard" | Featured Artist
Ralph Eugene Meatyard was and American photographer from Illinois, USA. Born 15 May 1925 and died 7 May 1972.
Meatyard's work spanned many genres and experimented with new means of expression, from dreamlike portraits (often set in abandoned places) to multiple exposures, motion-blur, and other methods of photographic abstraction.
"I first find the background, whatever it might be, and then I put what I want to in front of it" - Ralph Eugene Meatyard.
Meatyard lived in Lexington, Kentucky where he made his living as an optician while creating an impressive and enigmatic body of photographs.
#ralpheugenemeatyardphotography
@ralpheugenemeatyardphotography
#maskphotography
#dreamlikephotography
#rolleiflex
#blackandwhitephotography
📷 If you are an AMATEUR or PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER & ...
published: 29 Oct 2023
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
published: 19 Aug 2020
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François Morelli on Meatyard
Artist François Morelli discusses the photography in UKAM's exhibition, "RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD: Stages for Being".
published: 26 Sep 2018
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard - Must Know Photographer
Groundbreaking photographer of the 1950s and 60s, based in Lexington Kentucky, Ralph Eugene Meatyard was unlike any of his contemporaries.
I KNOW I pronounced...
Groundbreaking photographer of the 1950s and 60s, based in Lexington Kentucky, Ralph Eugene Meatyard was unlike any of his contemporaries.
I KNOW I pronounced Federico Fellini incorrectly, so I apologize to anyone I might have offended!
For more info about this photographer, including links to resources and books, visit...
https://blog.zachdobson.com/resources/
For advice, tips and behind-the-scenes stuff, head to my blog...
https://blog.zachdobson.com
Find me on social media here...
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Groundbreaking photographer of the 1950s and 60s, based in Lexington Kentucky, Ralph Eugene Meatyard was unlike any of his contemporaries.
I KNOW I pronounced Federico Fellini incorrectly, so I apologize to anyone I might have offended!
For more info about this photographer, including links to resources and books, visit...
https://blog.zachdobson.com/resources/
For advice, tips and behind-the-scenes stuff, head to my blog...
https://blog.zachdobson.com
Find me on social media here...
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/zach_dobson/
Twitter
https://twitter.com/zachdobsonphoto
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/ZachDobsonPh...
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachdobso...
If you're a TRUE photo nerd, you'll want to check out my portfolio site in FULL SCREEN viewing mode: https://zachdobson.com
#photography #prophotographer #prophotog #phototips #howto #shootlikeapro #onlinelessons #photographylesson #onlinelearning #documentaryphotography #photoshoot #behindthescenes
- published: 26 Jan 2022
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5:31
Ralph Eugene Meatyard - The Family Album - Photography
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, 1925–1972, was born in Normal, Illinois in 1925 and lived in Lexington, Kentucky, where he made his living as an optician. In 1954, Meaty...
Ralph Eugene Meatyard, 1925–1972, was born in Normal, Illinois in 1925 and lived in Lexington, Kentucky, where he made his living as an optician. In 1954, Meatyard joined the Lexington Camera Club. Cranston Ritchie and Van Deren Coke, both members of the club, became important mentors and inspiring models in Meatyard’s work. Working outside of the photographic mainstream, Meatyard experimented with multiple exposures, motion blur, and other methods of photographic abstraction. Meatyard’s photographs often include family members enacting symbolic dramas, often set in abandoned places. His final series, The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater, completed shortly before he died in 1972, pays homage to his beloved family and talented friends. Monographs include A Fourfold Vision, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Ralph Eugene Meatyard: The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater and Other Figurative Photographs, among others. In 2005–2006 an exhibition of over 150 of his photographs was shown at the International Center for Photography in New York and at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. In 2010, his work was included in an exhibition at the Pavillon Populaire, Galerie d’Art Photographique de la ville de Montpellier in France. In 2011, The Art Institute of Chicago has organized an exhibition. Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Dolls & Masks was accompanied by a publication and traveled to the deYoung Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
music; DAVID LYNCH - Ghost of Love
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard, 1925–1972, was born in Normal, Illinois in 1925 and lived in Lexington, Kentucky, where he made his living as an optician. In 1954, Meatyard joined the Lexington Camera Club. Cranston Ritchie and Van Deren Coke, both members of the club, became important mentors and inspiring models in Meatyard’s work. Working outside of the photographic mainstream, Meatyard experimented with multiple exposures, motion blur, and other methods of photographic abstraction. Meatyard’s photographs often include family members enacting symbolic dramas, often set in abandoned places. His final series, The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater, completed shortly before he died in 1972, pays homage to his beloved family and talented friends. Monographs include A Fourfold Vision, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Ralph Eugene Meatyard: The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater and Other Figurative Photographs, among others. In 2005–2006 an exhibition of over 150 of his photographs was shown at the International Center for Photography in New York and at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. In 2010, his work was included in an exhibition at the Pavillon Populaire, Galerie d’Art Photographique de la ville de Montpellier in France. In 2011, The Art Institute of Chicago has organized an exhibition. Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Dolls & Masks was accompanied by a publication and traveled to the deYoung Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
music; DAVID LYNCH - Ghost of Love
- published: 29 Mar 2015
- views: 8618
4:21
Wildly Strange
artsincontext.org | blantonmuseum.org
Upon seeing Ralph Eugene Meatyard's eerie photographs, friend and artistic associate Hugh Kenner was struck by the "wild...
artsincontext.org | blantonmuseum.org
Upon seeing Ralph Eugene Meatyard's eerie photographs, friend and artistic associate Hugh Kenner was struck by the "wildly strange" nature of the images. Often employing masks, dolls, and sometimes his own children set against abandoned buildings and other eerie backdrops, Meatyard's work differed from the documentary, photo-journalism approach that defined the mainstream definition of the photographer in the 1950s. Eschewing the expectation of “documentary truth,” Meatyard’s evocative photography sought to create something more akin to poetry. His photographs blur (often quite literally) the distinctions between literature and visual art, encouraging viewers to explore the role of fiction in the photographic images and their representation of reality. His work also features his literary cohort, including authors like Guy Davenport (a student of J. R. R. Tolkien) and Louis Zukofsky. Far from typical portraiture, Meatyard’s approach conveys the experience of reading the writers’ works in photographic form, forming an expectation and understanding in the reader’s mind before he or she even opens the book. With his eerie, extraordinary photography, Meatyard helped move his medium away from the strictures of objective reality and towards a new level of creative freedom.
Music:
“The Turning Bull”
“Kt”
by Bexar Bexar
https://wn.com/Wildly_Strange
artsincontext.org | blantonmuseum.org
Upon seeing Ralph Eugene Meatyard's eerie photographs, friend and artistic associate Hugh Kenner was struck by the "wildly strange" nature of the images. Often employing masks, dolls, and sometimes his own children set against abandoned buildings and other eerie backdrops, Meatyard's work differed from the documentary, photo-journalism approach that defined the mainstream definition of the photographer in the 1950s. Eschewing the expectation of “documentary truth,” Meatyard’s evocative photography sought to create something more akin to poetry. His photographs blur (often quite literally) the distinctions between literature and visual art, encouraging viewers to explore the role of fiction in the photographic images and their representation of reality. His work also features his literary cohort, including authors like Guy Davenport (a student of J. R. R. Tolkien) and Louis Zukofsky. Far from typical portraiture, Meatyard’s approach conveys the experience of reading the writers’ works in photographic form, forming an expectation and understanding in the reader’s mind before he or she even opens the book. With his eerie, extraordinary photography, Meatyard helped move his medium away from the strictures of objective reality and towards a new level of creative freedom.
Music:
“The Turning Bull”
“Kt”
by Bexar Bexar
- published: 05 Jun 2015
- views: 5927
3:56
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Ralph Eugene Meatyard (May 15, 1925-May 7, 1972) was an American photographer.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard's death in 1972, a week away from his 47th birthday, came ...
Ralph Eugene Meatyard (May 15, 1925-May 7, 1972) was an American photographer.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard's death in 1972, a week away from his 47th birthday, came at the height of the "photo boom," a period of growth and ferment in photography in the United States which paralleled the political and social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. It was a time of ambition, not reflection, a time for writing resumés, not thoughtful and inclusive histories; in the contest of reputation, dying in 1972 meant leaving the race early. It was left to friends and colleagues to complete an Aperture monograph on Meatyard and carry through with the publication of The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater (1974) which he had laid out and sequenced before his death. He was from Normal, Illinois.
While he lived Meatyard's work was shown and collected by major museums, published in important art magazines, and regarded by his peers as among the most original and disturbing imagery ever created with a camera. He exhibited with such well-known and diverse photographers as Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Minor White, Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, and Eikoh Hosoe. But by the late 1970s, his photographs seemed consigned to appear mainly in exhibitions of "southern" art. In the last decade, however, thanks in part to European critics (who since at least the time of De Tocqueville have forged insights into American culture), Meatyard's work has reemerged, and the depth of its genius and its contributions to photography have begun to be understood and appreciated. In a sense Meatyard suffered a fate common to artists who are very much of but also very far ahead of their time. Everything about his life and his art ran counter to the usual and expected patterns. He was an optician, happily married, a father of three, president of the Parent-Teacher Association, and coach of a boy's baseball team. He lived in Lexington, Kentucky, far from the urban centers most associated with serious art. His images had nothing to do with the gritty "street photography" of the east coast or the romantic view camera realism of the west coast. His best known images were populated with dolls and masks, with family, friends and neighbors pictured in abandoned buildings or in ordinary suburban backyards.
At the same time he often turned from this vernacular focus and, like such photographers as Henry Holmes Smith, Harry Callahan and others, produced highly experimental work. These images include multiple exposures and photographs where, through deliberate camera movement, Meatyard took Fox Talbot's "pencil of nature" and drew calligraphic images with the sun's reflection on a black void of water. However, where others used these experiments to expand the possibilities of form in photographs, Meatyard consistently applied breakthroughs in formal design to the exploration of ideas and emotions. Finally—and of great importance in the development of his aesthetic—Meatyard created a mode of "No-Focus" imagery that was distinctly his own. "No-Focus" images ran entirely counter to any association of camera art with objective realism and opened a new sense of creative freedom in his art.
In short, Meatyard's work challenged most of the cultural and aesthetic conventions of his time and did not fit in with the dominant notions of the kind of art photography could and should be. His work sprang from the beauty of ideas rather than ideas of the beautiful. Wide reading in literature (especially poetry) and philosophy (especially Zen) stimulated his imagination. While others roamed the streets searching for America and truth, Meatyard haunted the world of inner experience, continually posing unsettling questions about our emotional realities through his pictures. Once again, however, he inhabited this world quite differently from other photographers exploring inner experience at the time. Meatyard's "mirror" (as John Szarkowski used the term) was not narcissistic. It looked back reflectively on the dreams and terrors of metaphysical questions, not private arguments of faith or doubt.
Extract from the preface, by James Rhem [1]of the Photo Poche #87 [2] Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Actes Sud publishers, France. Posted by permission of the publisher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Eugene_Meatyard
Search: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/meatyard_ralph_eugene.html
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard (May 15, 1925-May 7, 1972) was an American photographer.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard's death in 1972, a week away from his 47th birthday, came at the height of the "photo boom," a period of growth and ferment in photography in the United States which paralleled the political and social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. It was a time of ambition, not reflection, a time for writing resumés, not thoughtful and inclusive histories; in the contest of reputation, dying in 1972 meant leaving the race early. It was left to friends and colleagues to complete an Aperture monograph on Meatyard and carry through with the publication of The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater (1974) which he had laid out and sequenced before his death. He was from Normal, Illinois.
While he lived Meatyard's work was shown and collected by major museums, published in important art magazines, and regarded by his peers as among the most original and disturbing imagery ever created with a camera. He exhibited with such well-known and diverse photographers as Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Minor White, Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, and Eikoh Hosoe. But by the late 1970s, his photographs seemed consigned to appear mainly in exhibitions of "southern" art. In the last decade, however, thanks in part to European critics (who since at least the time of De Tocqueville have forged insights into American culture), Meatyard's work has reemerged, and the depth of its genius and its contributions to photography have begun to be understood and appreciated. In a sense Meatyard suffered a fate common to artists who are very much of but also very far ahead of their time. Everything about his life and his art ran counter to the usual and expected patterns. He was an optician, happily married, a father of three, president of the Parent-Teacher Association, and coach of a boy's baseball team. He lived in Lexington, Kentucky, far from the urban centers most associated with serious art. His images had nothing to do with the gritty "street photography" of the east coast or the romantic view camera realism of the west coast. His best known images were populated with dolls and masks, with family, friends and neighbors pictured in abandoned buildings or in ordinary suburban backyards.
At the same time he often turned from this vernacular focus and, like such photographers as Henry Holmes Smith, Harry Callahan and others, produced highly experimental work. These images include multiple exposures and photographs where, through deliberate camera movement, Meatyard took Fox Talbot's "pencil of nature" and drew calligraphic images with the sun's reflection on a black void of water. However, where others used these experiments to expand the possibilities of form in photographs, Meatyard consistently applied breakthroughs in formal design to the exploration of ideas and emotions. Finally—and of great importance in the development of his aesthetic—Meatyard created a mode of "No-Focus" imagery that was distinctly his own. "No-Focus" images ran entirely counter to any association of camera art with objective realism and opened a new sense of creative freedom in his art.
In short, Meatyard's work challenged most of the cultural and aesthetic conventions of his time and did not fit in with the dominant notions of the kind of art photography could and should be. His work sprang from the beauty of ideas rather than ideas of the beautiful. Wide reading in literature (especially poetry) and philosophy (especially Zen) stimulated his imagination. While others roamed the streets searching for America and truth, Meatyard haunted the world of inner experience, continually posing unsettling questions about our emotional realities through his pictures. Once again, however, he inhabited this world quite differently from other photographers exploring inner experience at the time. Meatyard's "mirror" (as John Szarkowski used the term) was not narcissistic. It looked back reflectively on the dreams and terrors of metaphysical questions, not private arguments of faith or doubt.
Extract from the preface, by James Rhem [1]of the Photo Poche #87 [2] Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Actes Sud publishers, France. Posted by permission of the publisher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Eugene_Meatyard
Search: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/meatyard_ralph_eugene.html
- published: 01 Jun 2008
- views: 16633
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The Southern Gothic Photography of Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Ralph Eugene Meatyard is all surprises. He’s not what you’d expect as a person based on the photos he took.
For more info about this photographer, including l...
Ralph Eugene Meatyard is all surprises. He’s not what you’d expect as a person based on the photos he took.
For more info about this photographer, including links to resources and books, visit...
https://blog.zachdobson.com/resources/
For advice, tips and behind-the-scenes stuff, head to my blog...
https://blog.zachdobson.com
Find me on social media here...
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard is all surprises. He’s not what you’d expect as a person based on the photos he took.
For more info about this photographer, including links to resources and books, visit...
https://blog.zachdobson.com/resources/
For advice, tips and behind-the-scenes stuff, head to my blog...
https://blog.zachdobson.com
Find me on social media here...
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If you're a TRUE photo nerd, you'll want to check out my portfolio site in FULL SCREEN viewing mode: https://zachdobson.com
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- published: 31 Oct 2022
- views: 1598
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💧 Top 8 Quotes of Ralph Eugene Meatyard - Photographer
Top 8 Quotes of Ralph Eugene Meatyard:
◉ I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had...
Top 8 Quotes of Ralph Eugene Meatyard:
◉ I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had to learn to see No-focus from the beginning.
◉ Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at?
◉ I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.
◉ I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done.
◉ ... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can be, I think, so heartfelt that you almost can get a pang of compassion for the thing.
◉ I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to a form for the surreal. I have been called a preacher - but, in reality, I'm more generally philosophical. I have never made an abstracted photograph without content. An educated background in Zen influences all of my photographs. It has been said that my work resembles, more closely than any photographer, Le Douanier Rousseau - working in a fairly isolated area and feeding mostly on myself - I feel that I am a primitive photographer.
◉ I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.
◉ I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.
✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈
🖎 Author: Ralph Eugene Meatyard
♛ Career: Photographer
📅 Life: May 15, 1925 - May 7, 1972
🏷 #quotes_Ralph_Eugene_Meatyard, #quotes__Subjects, #quotes_Imagination
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Top 8 Quotes of Ralph Eugene Meatyard:
◉ I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had to learn to see No-focus from the beginning.
◉ Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at?
◉ I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.
◉ I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done.
◉ ... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can be, I think, so heartfelt that you almost can get a pang of compassion for the thing.
◉ I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to a form for the surreal. I have been called a preacher - but, in reality, I'm more generally philosophical. I have never made an abstracted photograph without content. An educated background in Zen influences all of my photographs. It has been said that my work resembles, more closely than any photographer, Le Douanier Rousseau - working in a fairly isolated area and feeding mostly on myself - I feel that I am a primitive photographer.
◉ I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.
◉ I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.
✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈
🖎 Author: Ralph Eugene Meatyard
♛ Career: Photographer
📅 Life: May 15, 1925 - May 7, 1972
🏷 #quotes_Ralph_Eugene_Meatyard, #quotes__Subjects, #quotes_Imagination
- published: 17 Apr 2019
- views: 82
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Black and White Photography - "Ralph Eugene Meatyard" | Featured Artist
Ralph Eugene Meatyard was and American photographer from Illinois, USA. Born 15 May 1925 and died 7 May 1972.
Meatyard's work spanned many genres and experimen...
Ralph Eugene Meatyard was and American photographer from Illinois, USA. Born 15 May 1925 and died 7 May 1972.
Meatyard's work spanned many genres and experimented with new means of expression, from dreamlike portraits (often set in abandoned places) to multiple exposures, motion-blur, and other methods of photographic abstraction.
"I first find the background, whatever it might be, and then I put what I want to in front of it" - Ralph Eugene Meatyard.
Meatyard lived in Lexington, Kentucky where he made his living as an optician while creating an impressive and enigmatic body of photographs.
#ralpheugenemeatyardphotography
@ralpheugenemeatyardphotography
#maskphotography
#dreamlikephotography
#rolleiflex
#blackandwhitephotography
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard was and American photographer from Illinois, USA. Born 15 May 1925 and died 7 May 1972.
Meatyard's work spanned many genres and experimented with new means of expression, from dreamlike portraits (often set in abandoned places) to multiple exposures, motion-blur, and other methods of photographic abstraction.
"I first find the background, whatever it might be, and then I put what I want to in front of it" - Ralph Eugene Meatyard.
Meatyard lived in Lexington, Kentucky where he made his living as an optician while creating an impressive and enigmatic body of photographs.
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- published: 29 Oct 2023
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François Morelli on Meatyard
Artist François Morelli discusses the photography in UKAM's exhibition, "RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD: Stages for Being".
Artist François Morelli discusses the photography in UKAM's exhibition, "RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD: Stages for Being".
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Artist François Morelli discusses the photography in UKAM's exhibition, "RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD: Stages for Being".
- published: 26 Sep 2018
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