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[Seated Boy on Seashore, Throwing Rock]
1960 · Gelatin silver print
13.1 x 26.3 cm (5 3/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard
1925
Normal, IL, USA
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Photographs for Collectors
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard was an American photographer working in black and white who created deliberately ambiguous, often unsettling domestic and suburban scenes populated by masked figures and his own family members. Based in Normal, Illinois, Meatyard employed soft focus, unusual framing, and props to generate a dreamlike visual language that blurred the boundary between documentary and constructed narrative. His work was included in the seminal MoMA exhibition Photographs for Collectors in 1960, establishing his significance within postwar American photography. His practice anticipated conceptual photography and performance-based image-making by more than a decade.
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Art Institute of Chicago
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