My first reaction to Ralph Eugene Meatyard's work was a creepy feeling. The masks which he has the children wear in some photographs seem to meld into their skin, almost making them appear non-human. It is said that "Meatyard's work challenged most of the cultural and aesthetic conventions of his time and did not fit in with the dominant notions of the kind of art photography could and should be. His work sprang from the beauty of ideas rather than ideas of the beautiful."
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