Ralph Eugene Meatyard [Aperture]

Ralph Eugene Meatyard [Aperture][Photography] [Southern] [Visionary] Ralph Eugene Meatyard Aperture Books, NY. 1974. First edition, hard cover. A pristine copy. The first serious monograph surveying the works of Ralph Eugene Meatyard. This one comes with text by James Baker Hall with a reminiscence by Guy Davenport. Meatyard was a brilliant autodidact best known for his surreal photography of southern weirdos festooned in masks, posed with dolls, giving his whole ouvre a dreamlike

"Waco: Justice Takes a Holiday" (A shameful footnote around the judge tossing the jury's recommendations and giving out maximum sentences across the board

and how do its members use peyote

ritual amp worship of Earth and Sunn O))) and the many touch points in between

Johanna Russ

and with only 63 copies out there

Not a book of aphorisms as one may think

Remember when Harley stabbed a dude at a show a few years ago

that bottle

Pagels talking Gnosticism

Under her own name

Although I find the recent trend of tying your entire worldview to Paglia's literary criticism to be fraught

glue the spine