Computer Animation Arts

There is something extraordinarily unsettling about the mask photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard . For me at least, they cut down to the bone of half-remembered childhood anxieties; about waking up to find the world horribly altered somehow or finding your parents transformed or vanished or strange. It's not just the cheap Halloween masks - it's the ordinariness of the settings. Even the sunlight chills me a little bit. " Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-1972) attended Williams College as part of the Navy's V12 program in World War II. Following the war, he married, became a licensed optician, and moved to Lexington, Kentucky. When the first of his three children was born, Meatyard bought a camera to make pictures of the baby. Quickly, photography became a consuming interest. He joined the Lexington Camera Club, where he met Van Deren Coke , under whose encouragement he soon developed into a powerfully original photographer. Meatyard used still images to record thing...