Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Untitled (from Romances)
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May 2, 05:08 PM GMT
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5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard
1925 - 1972
Untitled (from Romances)
gelatin silver print, signed by Madelyn O. Meatyard, the photographer's widow, in ink and with numerical notations in pencil on the reverse, 1960
image: 6¼ by 7⅞ in. (15.9 by 20 cm.)
Michael Shapiro Photography, San Francisco, 2008
"Ralph Eugene Meatyard," essay by Guy Davenport, International Center for Photography, New York, 2004, p. 160 (this print)
‘Upon seeing these photographs by Meatyard I was mesmerized by the gaping vortex of reality versus artistic vision laid bare in these straightforward yet arresting images. How is it that a woman in conventional dress - looking just as one imagines a typical housewife and mother looked in the 1950s and 1960s - has become an unsettling and otherworldly creature? The same can be asked of his photographs of children: young becomes old. . . Conventional becomes eerie by means of a small prop. . .’
Vera Lutter on Ralph Eugene Meatyard (75 Photographers Looking at 75 Pictures from the Pilara Foundation, San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, p. 54)
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