Description: Ralph Eugene Meatyard Title: Ralph Eugene Meatyard Publication: Steidl, February 2005 Edition: First Edition Description: Oversized Hardcover. Very Good / No Jacket. 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. Solid binding, gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy boards in off-white cloth w/ photo inset and green stamped lettering; Pages free of markings; An excellent copy. Seller ID: 337892 Subject: Art & Architecture Atlanta's only in-town, full-service bookstore since 1989. For more than three decades, A Cappella Books has been serving the Atlanta community with our unique selection of new, used, and antiquarian titles. Together with a wide range of partners across Atlanta, we bring great authors to the city all year long for book signings and literary events, and our signed titles garner us customers from all around the world. From our humble beginnings in Little Five Points to our cozy current shop in Inman Park, we're always in the business of buying, selling, and trading used books. All orders ship within two business days. Standard mail is USPS Media Mail.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Publisher: Steidl
Year Printed: 2005
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
