Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Abstractions

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.

Black-and-white close-up photograph of a foaming, marble-textured liquid surface
Black-and-white photograph of a foaming, marble-textured liquid surface
Black-and-white close-up photograph of a scratched glass surface
Black-and-white photograph of a partly-submerged rock in moving water reflecting pine branches above
Black-and-white photograph of an abstract pattern of black blobs and swirls on a dark gray background
Black-and-white photograph of a soaped-up window with squiggles and letters drawn into it
Black-and-white photograph of a cracked pane of glass with spider-like converging fracture patterns
Black-and-white photograph of the texture of a soaped-up window
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Black-and-white photograph of two people in rubber masks standing against a hedgerow

Ralph Eugene Meatyard: The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater
Black and white photograph of a young boy in a white button up shirt, apparently caught mid-motion so that his face is shown in both blurred profile and straight on.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Romances
Black and white photograph of a child figure wearing a mask and sitting by a creek with dolls in the water

Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Dolls & Masks
Square black-and-white photograph of light and shadow filtering through rippling water

Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Light on Water