Ralph Eugene Meatyard

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Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks standing against a hedgerow

Ralph Eugene MeatyardThe Family Album of Lucybelle Crater

The series presents portraits of the artist’s wife wearing a dime-store hag’s mask, paired with various family members and friends who wear a transparent hard-plastic mask. The titles of the images outline cryptic relationships, and in all instances, both figures are identified by the same name: Lucybelle Crater.

Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks standing on the front steps of a brick home — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lucybelle Crater and Eastern man’s friend Lucybelle Crater, 1970-72

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks standing in front of a wire fence — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, One of seven kids of Mertonian friend, 1970-72

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks seated before a small garden — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lucybelle Crater and her regular mother Lucybelle Crater, 1970-72

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-5/8 inches (mount) [29.2 x 22.9 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks standing by an ajar wooden gate — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lucybelle Crater and gnomist friend from W 6th St’s friend from Vassar College, Lucybelle Crater, 1970-72

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of an adult and child in rubber masks standing behind a clothesline with a few garments — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1970-72

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks standing next to a lattice-in porch of a brick building — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lucybelle Crater and bibliophilic friend Lucybelle Crater, 1970-72

gelatin silver print, 11-3/8 x 9-5/8 inches (mount) [28.8 x 24.5 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks seated on a low convertible car — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1970-72

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks standing in front of a screened-in terrace — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lucybelle Crater and her friend with a different Jargon, Lucybelle Crater, 1970-72

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a couple wearing rubber masks seated in the grass in front of a car — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lucybelle Crater and her P.O. brother Lucybelle Crater, 1970-72

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Ralph Eugene MeatyardLucybelle Crater and her 40 year old husband Lucybelle Crater

1970-72

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardLucybelle Crater and Eastern man’s friend Lucybelle Crater

1970-72

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardOne of seven kids of Mertonian friend

1970-72

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardLucybelle Crater and her regular mother Lucybelle Crater

1970-72

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-5/8 inches (mount) [29.2 x 22.9 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardLucybelle Crater and gnomist friend from W 6th St’s friend from Vassar College, Lucybelle Crater

1970-72

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1970-72

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardLucybelle Crater and bibliophilic friend Lucybelle Crater

1970-72

gelatin silver print, 11-3/8 x 9-5/8 inches (mount) [28.8 x 24.5 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1970-72

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardLucybelle Crater and her friend with a different Jargon, Lucybelle Crater

1970-72

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardLucybelle Crater and her P.O. brother Lucybelle Crater

1970-72

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Black-and-white photograph of a young boy sitting in front of a shuttered loading dock

Ralph Eugene MeatyardRomances

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardRomances

A fervent reader, Meatyard was deeply influenced by the writer Ambrose Bierce’s definition in The Devil’s Dictionary: “ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are.”

Black-and-white photograph of a young boy standing in a window frame — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1955

gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 inches (sheet) [25.4 x 20.3 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a person's slightly out-of-focus and shadowed face beneath a strand of twine coming through a window — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1960

gelatin-silver print, 6-1/4 x 6-1/2 inches (image & sheet) [15.9 x 16.5 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a young girl crawling through grass in a garden — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1960

gelatin-silver print, 13 x 10 inches (sheet) [33.0 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a person's outstretched forearms through a darkened stone archway — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1955

gelatin-silver print, 11-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches (sheet) [28.6 x 19.1 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a man standing next to a cracked mirror — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1960

gelatin silver print, 7-1/2 x 7-3/4 inches (sheet) [19.1 x 19.7 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a young boy in a hooded sweatshirt looking through a door with missing panels from a decrepit room — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1960

gelatin silver print, 13 x 10 inches (mount) [33.0 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of two figures seated in an attic room next to a square window — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, ca. 1968

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a young boy in motion next to a blank white external wall — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, ca. 1954-56

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a child lying under a graffitied wooden panel with carved initials and drawings — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, date unknown

gelatin-silver print, 14 x 11 inches (mount) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]

Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1955-56

gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches (sheet) [27.9 x 35.6 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1955

gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 inches (sheet) [25.4 x 20.3 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1960

gelatin-silver print, 6-1/4 x 6-1/2 inches (image & sheet) [15.9 x 16.5 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1960

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1955

gelatin-silver print, 11-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches (sheet) [28.6 x 19.1 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1960

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1960

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1968

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1954-56

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

date unknown

gelatin-silver print, 14 x 11 inches (mount) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]

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Black-and-white photograph of a person wearing a rubber mask seated on a slanted surface next to another mask

Ralph Eugene MeatyardDolls & Masks

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardDolls & Masks

Meatyard’s staged images—set in abandoned spaces and often using masks and props—are at once familiar and enigmatic, reflecting the artist’s fascination with the uncanniness of ordinary life.

Black-and-white photograph of a person wearing a rubber mask seated in a rowboat on the grass holding up another mask — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1957-58

gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (mount) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of three children holding baby dolls and a woman holding a mask over her face — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1962

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a boy in a mask standing under a gall of a tree — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, ca. 1960

gelatin silver print, 6-3/4 x 5-1/2 inches (sheet) [17.2 x 14.0 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a woman in a mask standing in a doorway with a child in overalls on the lower left — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, ca. 1968-69

gelatin silver print, 6-1/8 x 4-1/4 inches (sheet) [15.6 x 10.8 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a boy seated among felled tree branches containing three masks scattered within them — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1963

gelatin silver print, 13 x 10 inches (mount) [33.0 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a headless mannequin positioned on the ground next to a small doll hovering above a tray — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, ca. 1960

gelatin silver print, 7-3/8 x 7-3/4 inches (sheet) [18.6 x 19.7 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of eyeless doll lying on a bed through the metal bedframe — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, #6 Laughter, ca. 1961

gelatin silver print, 11-1/8 x 9 inches (mount) [28.3 x 24.1 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of an assortment of rubber masks and doll heads positioned on two pedestals in an overgrown garden — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Surreal, 1959

gelatin silver print, 7-1/2 x 7-3/4 inches (image) [20.0 x 25.1 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a couple in masks laying on the floor in embrace — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, ca. 1968

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1964

gelatin silver print, 11 x 9 inches (mount) [28 x 22.8 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1957-58

gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (mount) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1962

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1960

gelatin silver print, 6-3/4 x 5-1/2 inches (sheet) [17.2 x 14.0 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1968-69

gelatin silver print, 6-1/8 x 4-1/4 inches (sheet) [15.6 x 10.8 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1963

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1960

gelatin silver print, 7-3/8 x 7-3/4 inches (sheet) [18.6 x 19.7 cm]

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Ralph Eugene Meatyard#6 Laughter

ca. 1961

gelatin silver print, 11-1/8 x 9 inches (mount) [28.3 x 24.1 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardSurreal

1959

gelatin silver print, 7-1/2 x 7-3/4 inches (image) [20.0 x 25.1 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1968

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Black-and-white photograph of a thin branching twig in focus against a blurred background

Ralph Eugene MeatyardZen

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardZen

A meditative study of the mysterious forms of twigs and tree branches, inspired and informed by the artist’s deep study of Zen Buddhism.

Black-and-white photograph of dried buds on thing tree branches — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1964

gelatin silver print , 14 x 11 inches (mount) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of thin budding tree branches against a blurred background — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1959

gelatin silver print , 14 x 11 inches (mount) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a thin branch against a blurred background of trees and sky — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1961

gelatin silver print, 13 x 10 inches (mount) [33.0 x 25.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a spiky bud at the tip of a thin curving branch on a blurred background of running water — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1964

gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (mount) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of two thin bare branches against a blurred background of pine branches — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1959

gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (mount) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a dried leaf impaled on a bare branch — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1960

gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (mount) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a thin zig-zagging bare branch — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, ca. 1957-58

gelatin silver print , 4-1/2 x 4-1/2 (sheet) [11.4 x 11.4 cm]

Black-and-white photograph of a bare twig with three prongs — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1960

gelatin silver print , 14 x 11 inches (mount) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]

Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1960

gelatin silver print, 5-3/4 x 7 inches (image & sheet) [14.6 x 17.8 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1964

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1959

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1961

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1964

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1959

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1960

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1957-58

gelatin silver print , 4-1/2 x 4-1/2 (sheet) [11.4 x 11.4 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1960

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Square black-and-white photograph of light and shadow filtering through rippling water

Ralph Eugene MeatyardLight on Water

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardLight on Water

Using movement to follow luminescent, broken reflections in water, the artist’s experimental photographs create a free-form effect similar to qualities of Abstract Expressionist paintings.

Square black-and-white photograph of light and shadow filtering through water — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1960

gelatin silver print, 13 x 10 inches (mount) [33.0 x 25.4 cm]

Square black-and-white long-exposure photograph of light trails reflecting off of moving water — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1969-70

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches (mount) [29.2 x 24.8 cm]

Square black-and-white long-exposure photograph of light reflecting off of splashing water — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, ca. 1960

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-5/8 inches (mount) [29.2 x 22.9 cm]

Square black-and-white long-exposure photograph of falling water droplets catching the light — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, ca. 1960

gelatin silver print, 13 x 10 inches (mount) [33.0 x 25.4 cm]

Square black-and-white long-exposure photograph of bubble trails rising underwater — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1962

gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (mount) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]

Square black-and-white long-exposure photograph of two trails of light reflecting off of moving water — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, ca. 1967

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches (mount) [29.2 x 24.1 cm]

Square black-and-white long-exposure photograph of faint squiggly light trails on moving water — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1962

gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (mount) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]

Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1960

gelatin silver print, 13 x 10 inches (mount) [33.0 x 25.4 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1960

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1969-70

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches (mount) [29.2 x 24.8 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1960

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1960

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardLove Story #2

ca. 1967

gelatin silver print, 10-3/4 x 10 inches (sheet) [27.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1962

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1967

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1962

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardNo-Focus

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardNo-Focus

Reducing groups of human figures to indistinct abstractions, the artist proposes an alternate notion to the traditional photographic portrait.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1959 / printed ca. 1959

gelatin silver print, 7-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches (image & sheet) [18.4 x 21.0 cm]

Black-and-white out-of-focus photograph of a figure standing between two dark blobs — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, ca. 1957-58

gelatin silver print, 7-3/4 x 7-1/4 inches (sheet) [19.7 x 18.4 cm]

Black-and-white out-of-focus photograph of two dark figures walking — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1959

gelatin silver print, 6-3/8 x 7-1/4 inches (sheet) [16.2 x 18.4 cm]

Black-and-white out-of-focus photograph of a hazy white blob on a dark background — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, ca. 1958

gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (mount) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]

Black-and-white out-of-focus photograph of three dark figures standing apart from one another — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, ca. 1958

gelatin silver print, 6-3/8 x 7-7/8 inches (sheet) [16.2 x 20 cm]

Black-and-white out-of-focus photograph of three or four dark standing figures on a light background — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, ca. 1957-58

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1959 / printed ca. 1959

gelatin silver print, 7-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches (image & sheet) [18.4 x 21.0 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1957-58

gelatin silver print, 7-3/4 x 7-1/4 inches (sheet) [19.7 x 18.4 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1959

gelatin silver print, 6-3/8 x 7-1/4 inches (sheet) [16.2 x 18.4 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1958

gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (mount) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1958

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1957-58

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Black-and-white multiple-exposure photograph of light through trees

Ralph Eugene MeatyardMotion-Sound

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardMotion-Sound

Photographed in the open landscape, or in simple rural environments, this series evokes the transcendental aspects of nature, and truths that appear beyond the intellect.

Black-and-white multiple-exposure photograph of a person's reflection against a city street — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1967

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches (mount) [29.2 x 24.1 cm]

Black-and-white multiple-exposure photograph of short leafy plants standing in grass — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1968-72

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches (mount) [29.2 x 24.8 cm]

Black-and-white multiple-exposure photograph of sunlight entering a dark room through two windows — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, ca. 1968-72

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-5/8 inches (mount) [29.2 x 24.5 cm]

Black-and-white multiple-exposure photograph of the corner of a wooden shed with sloping roof — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1968-1972

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches (mount) [29.2 x 24.1 cm]

Black-and-white multiple-exposure photograph of the corner of a tall city building with evenly spaced rectangular windows — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1968-1972

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches (mount) [29.2 x 24.1 cm]

Black-and-white multiple-exposure photograph of a bare tree between two collapsing wooden sheds — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1968-72

gelatin silver print, 6-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches (image & sheet)

Black-and-white multiple-exposure photograph of bare trees on a hill above a leaf-littered ground — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1968-72

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x7-1/2 inches (mount) [29.2 x 19.1 cm]

Black-and-white multiple-exposure photograph of two figures standing amid bare trees — Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1969

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1968-72

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-5/8 inches (mount) [29.2 x 24.5 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1967

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches (mount) [29.2 x 24.1 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1968-72

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches (mount) [29.2 x 24.8 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

ca. 1968-72

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-5/8 inches (mount) [29.2 x 24.5 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1968-1972

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches (mount) [29.2 x 24.1 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1968-1972

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches (mount) [29.2 x 24.1 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1968-72

gelatin silver print, 6-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches (image & sheet)

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1968-72

gelatin silver print, 11-1/2 x7-1/2 inches (mount) [29.2 x 19.1 cm]

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardUntitled

1969

gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches (sheet) [20.3 x 25.4 cm]

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Black-and-white photograph of water trickling into a rippling pool

Ralph Eugene MeatyardAbstractions

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Ralph Eugene MeatyardAbstractions

From 1957 to 1972, Meatyard undertook several different conceptual projects exploring the possibilities of abstraction in photography. In these works, he evokes a world not normally acknowledged with the human eye.