Untitled
2010.003.001
Ralph Eugene Meatyard was born in Normal, Illinois and lived in Lexington, Kentucky, where he made his living as an optician. Working outside of the photographic mainstream, the artist experimented with multiple exposures, motion blur, and other methods of photographic abstraction. Meatyard’s photographs often include family members enacting symbolic dramas, often set in abandoned places. His final series, The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater, completed shortly before he died in 1972, pays homage to his beloved family and friends.