Artist Research-Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Meatyard was born in 1925 in Illinois,USA. When he turned 18 he left to join the Navy as he was 18 during world war 2. Once he returned from fighting, he began to train to be an optician.

Meatyard purchased his first camera in 1950 to photograph his newborn first child. Once his children were older and he had a larger understanding of his camera, he began to take more images of his children and also took images so blurry many couldn’t figure out what it actually was.

Inspiration

SHOOT

For this shoot I wanted to try and figure out which parts of the image I wanted in/out of focus. I had only been taught how to manually use my camera, so I was pleased with how they turned out.

Successful outcomes (unedited)

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Favourite image

This is my favourite image because I like the fact that you can still see the contrast in colours of the wheelchair; especially the metal because the sun had caused the top of the frame to be a silver colour and the bottom to be a slightly brass/copper colour. This allows the viewer to think about which colours are in the image and look outside what is in the centre of the image.

I made sure that the image was blurred to stick with the inspiration of Ralph Eugene Meatyard. I like the fact that you can still vaguely see the different textures of the wheelchair. The room I was in was very light and I thought that it worked with the dark colours of the central features like the chair, wheels and handles of the wheelchair.