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Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at?

Ralph Eugene Meatyard

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Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Age: 46 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 15
Died: 1972
Died: May 7
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... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can be, I think, so heartfelt that you almost can get a pang of compassion for the thing.
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I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had to learn to see No-focus from the beginning.
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I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.
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