
A Fourfold Vision
- Publisher
- Nazraeli Press
- Year
- 2004
- ISBN
- 9781590051153
- Specifications
- Hardback
28 x 30.5 cm
48 pages
32 duotone plates
Introduction by Emmet Gowin
First edition of 1,000 copies
Thirty-two pictures in which Meatyard’s images are at least double exposures, introduced by Emmet Gowin, who knew him at the turn of the 1970s. "It is a sobering joy to revisit these spontaneous, imaginative and transcendent photographs again, thirty-six years later. The photographs continue to speak to us of a world beyond the one we normally see. We live in a world of appearances and mental habits. The profound and lyric photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard open us up to at least a double world, a world where all that is invisible, or only felt, or only dreamed, is as true, or as possible, or as necessary, as the ground which holds us down. It would be tempting to stop there, in the twofold world of double vision. But Meatyard’s vision was of Blake’s kind, fourfold, and of immense delight."