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PhotoNOLA 2022

Remembering Ralph Eugene Meatyard: A Conversation with Emmet Gowin and Richard McCabe

Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Prescience, 1960, © The Estate of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Wednesday, December 7, 2022 | 7 pm

Please join us for Remembering Ralph Eugene Meatyard.  Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Curator of Photographs Richard McCabe and award-winning photographer Emmet Gowin will be in conversation tying photographs to memories of Gowin’s personal experience with “Gene” in the years 1968 – 1971.  The shared vision of two great American photographers will be explored through Gowin’s fond memories of their first meeting in 1968 through Gowin’s participation in Meatyard’s final photographic project, The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater. The parallels in each photographer’s art practice and personal stories of friendship will be told through Gowin’s fond recollections of his friend. Gowin will also discuss and read passages from his book, Ralph Eugene Meatyard – A Fourfold Vision.

Register: $20/Free to NOPA members

Admission included in PhotoGALA ticket. Please register to attend.
The PhotoGALA will immediately follow the talk, 8-10 pm. Please join for food, drinks, prizes and live music from the Victory Belles. 

The Higgins Hotel
1000 Magazine St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
(504) 528-1941

Learn more about The Photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, an exhibition on display at Ogden Museum of Southern Art through January 23, 2023.

 

ABOUT RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD

Ralph Eugene Meatyard lived in Lexington, Kentucky, where he made his living as an optician while creating an impressive and enigmatic body of photographs. Meatyard’s creative circle included mystics and poets, such as Thomas Merton and Guy Davenport, as well as the photographers Cranston Ritchie and Van Deren Coke, who were mentors and fellow members of the Lexington Camera Club.

Meatyard’s work spanned many genres and experimented with new means of expression, from dreamlike portraits—often set in abandoned places—to multiple exposures, motion-blur, and other methods of photographic abstraction. He also collaborated with his friend Wendell Berry on the 1971 book The Unforeseen Wilderness, for which Meatyard contributed photographs of Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. Meatyard’s final series, The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater, are cryptic double portraits of friends and family members wearing masks and enacting symbolic dramas.

Museum exhibitions of the artist’s work have recently been presented at The Art Institute of Chicago; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; the de Young Museum, San Francisco; The International Center of Photography, New York; Cincinnati Museum of Art, Ohio; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas. His works are held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, SFMOMA, J. Paul Getty Museum, The Eastman Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery, among others. Monographs include American Mystic, Dolls and Masks, A Fourfold Vision, and The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater and Other Figurative Photographs.

 

EMMET GOWIN (b. December 22, 1941) received a BFA in Graphic Design from the Richmond Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University) in 1965 and an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1967.

He served on the faculty of Princeton University as a professor of photography in the Visual Arts Program from 1973 until his retirement in 2009, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1974) and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1977, 1979).

For six decades, Gowin has contemplated humanity’s relationship to the natural world with visual wonderment. His photographs have evolved from intimate portraits of his wife Edith Morris and extended Virginia family, to aerial vistas of nuclear test sites, to scientific surveys of tropical ecosystems and their dependent biodiversity. He has created formally abstract, luminous compositions of the volcanic devastation of Washington’s Mount St. Helens, the chemical contamination of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, pivot irrigation agriculture in Kansas, the chemo-petrol industries of the Czech Republic, and most recently, the Spanish province of Granada.

 

©Sesthasak Boonchai

RICHARD McCABE is a curator, photographer and writer based in New Orleans. He was born in England and grew up in the American South. In 1998, he received an MFA in Studio Art from Florida State University. Since 2010, he has been the Curator of Photography at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. He has organized and curated over thirty exhibitions including: Seeing Beyond the Ordinary, The Mythology of Florida, The Rising, Eudora Welty: Photographs from the 1930s – 40s, The Colourful South, Self-Processing: Instant Photography, Memory is a Strange Bell: The Art of William Christenberry and New Southern Photography.

Richard McCabe’s photographs have been included in gallery and museum exhibitions throughout the United States including: Size Matters, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama, Instant Joy, AM Richard Fine Art Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, and Once Around The Sun, Boyd/Satellite Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana. In 2017, AINT – BAD press published LAND STAR, a monograph of McCabe’s photography. McCabe’s thoughts and writings on photography have been published in the New York Times, Time, National Public Radio(NPR), Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Spot, The Bitter Southerner, AINT – BAD, Hotshoe, Huck and LENSCRATCH magazine. In 2018, he contributed the introduction essay  –The Reality on the Ground for the University of New Orleans press publication: New Southern Photography: Images of the Twenty-first Century South.

 

Posted on: Nov 20 2022
Posted in: PhotoNOLA 2022, Festival Events, Festival Pass, Lectures & Talks, Julia/CBD Arts District, Museums, December 07

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