"RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD – AN AMERICAN VISIONARY" par Barbara TANNENBAUM. Editions Rizzoli, New York & Akron Art Museum, Ohio. 1991. Imprimé en Italie. in-4, couverture toilée grise sous jaquette photo. 208 pages. Textes en anglais de Barbara Tannenbaum, David L. Jacobs, Van Deren Coke, Wendell Berry, illustré de très nombreuses reproductions photographiques noir & blanc, pleine page pour la plupart, par Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition éponyme itinérante au San Francisco Museum of Modern Art du 06 Septembre au 10 Novembre 1991, au Oklahoma City Art Museum du 08 Décembre 1991 au 12 Février 1992, au National Museum of American Art – Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. du 03 Juillet au 27 Septembre 1992, au Newport Harbor Art Museum du 18 Décembre 1992 au 14 Février 1993 et au Akron Art Museum du 19 Juin au 15 Août 1993. 

 

"This is the first book in nearly twenty years to present the photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-1972) in a retrospective survey of his career. A master craftsman of exotic image making, Meatyard was influential among his contemporaries, but until recently he has been surprisingly overlooked by traditional historians of the medium. The 108 full-page plates in this volume chronicle his eclectic work form the earliest documentary photographs to his Zen-inspired, metaphorical abstractions that hint at a spiritual essence behind the visible world… An optician by trade, Meatyard quickly abandoned the photographer's role as a passive observer and flouted some of straight photography's most hallowed conventions – including sharp focus and a wide range of tonal gradation – in his search for a new way of seeing…"

 

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