Details

Title

Untitled

Artist/Maker

Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American, 1925–1972)

Date

ca. 1964

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

7-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches

Credit

Purchase with funds from Lucinda W. Bunnen for the Bunnen Collection in honor of Thomas W. Southall

Accession #

1999.34

On View

Currently not on view

An optician by profession, Ralph Eugene Meatyard was a largely self-taught photographer best known for creating images that disrupt the everyday by suggesting absurd narratives for ordinary occurrences. He did not pick up a camera until he became a father, and his children eventually became frequent subjects and collaborators in his work. Meatyard regularly staged scenes that show his children playing out open-ended fantasies in abandoned buildings and bucolic landscapes in the suburban environs of Lexington, Kentucky. Through his use of props and dilapidated settings, the common family snapshot unfolds with a sense of foreboding.

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