Vibrations of Nature: In-camera Multiple Exposures
![Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Common Open Spaces and Footpath Preservation Society, 1969
15 vintage gelatin silver prints
Image sizes range from 5 13/16 - 5 7/8 x 5 11/16 - 5 13/16 in. Printed with small white margins and trimmed to sizes range from 6 3/4 - 6 13/16 x 6 11/16 - 6 3/4 in. Mounted to 2 ply mat board 11 1/2 x 9 5/8.
Each print titled and numbered sequentially in ink and stamped on print verso [first image has the full title and the rest have an abbreviation].
Image 11 illustrated: Gassan, Arnold and Wendell Berry. Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Gnomon Press, 1970, pl. 22.
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Common Open Spaces and Footpath Preservation Society, 1969
15 vintage gelatin silver prints
Image sizes range from 5 13/16 - 5 7/8 x 5 11/16 - 5 13/16 in. Printed with small white margins and trimmed to sizes range from 6 3/4 - 6 13/16 x 6 11/16 - 6 3/4 in. Mounted to 2 ply mat board 11 1/2 x 9 5/8. Each print titled and numbered sequentially in ink and stamped on print verso [first image has the full title and the rest have an abbreviation]. Image 11 illustrated: Gassan, Arnold and Wendell Berry. Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Gnomon Press, 1970, pl. 22.
8433
$30,000
Meatyard was introduced to sequencing by Minor White and intuitively understood the importance of narrative in images. The title is nonsensical and thus encourages the viewer to use their imagination to interpret the meaning of the work. They are dark and haunting and vibrate with energy even though the photographs were made late in the year when much of the foliage had died.
In the forward of Ralph Eugene Meatyard: A Fourfold Vision (Nazraeli Press, 2005), photographer Emmet Gowin recalls meeting Meatyard in 1968 and being introduced to the Motion-Sound series: “…Gene instructed me that it would be more useful to think in terms of Vibration, or Visible Sound.” Gowin later reflected, “Everything in these photographs reminds us that all of nature depends on its proper pulse.”
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