Mini Road Trip to Northern Indiana & November New Acquisitions

I drove to Angola yesterday for the first time. Lake Country indeed! It was the land of abandoning piles of burning leaves in the front yard. It felt like a resort - McCall, Idaho in the fall comes to mind. On the way back, I stopped in Marion, Indiana - a truly scary town. I know I've lived next to James Dean territory for a few years now and I finally saw his birthplace. It's now a parking lot with a rock plaque and star to mark the event.





Then I came home to unwrap some books: the new Miranda July, Ralph Eugene Meatyard's Dolls and Masks, and From the Bottom of the Well by Shawn Records.

James & Ralph

James Luckett's Like a Man, As a Man and the Ralph Eugene Meatyard Dolls and Masks catalog at the Chicago Art Institute.

Meatyard on My Mind

Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Ambrose Bierce, 1964

From this website: "Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-1972) has been on the fringes of photographic history--so much so that he once inserted one of his own prints into a personal copy of Beaumont Newhall's seminal History of Photography, which had not included him."

More soon...

Family Photos: Part 1

Ralph Eugene Meatyard, The Family Photo Album of Lucybelle Crater, 1970-72


Seydou Keita, Bamako, 1956


Ken Josephson, Anissa, 1969


Zhang Huan, Family Tree, 2000


Jessica Todd Harper, Christmas Eve Dinner, 2006


Rita Marhaug, 256 pounds, 1988


Doug Dubois, Lisa and James, Ithaca, NY, 2005


Tina Barney, Sunday New York Times, 1982


Richard Avedon, Lyal Burl and His Sons Kerry & Philip, 1981


Diane Arbus, Brooklyn Family, 1966


Emmet Gowin, Edith, Ruth & Mae, 1967