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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Add this copy of Ralph Eugene Meatyard to cart. $40.48, poor condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2004 by Steidl Verlag.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1650grams, ISBN: 3865210651.
Add this copy of Ralph Eugene Meatyard: an Aperture Monograph to cart. $82.00, like new condition, Sold by Tiber Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cockeysville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Aperture, Millerton. NY.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0912334622. Reminiscence by Guy Davenport. Black and white photographs throughout. First edition. Foxing on top edge, upper corner of front free endpaper is clipped, else very good in a very good (a bit faded along the spine), price clipped dust jacket.
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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.
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New. Different cover than pictured. Linen covered with tipped on image. Published for ICP show. Ship in sturdy box with bubble wrap. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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