Ralph Eugene Meatyard: The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater and other figurative photographs.
D.A.P, New York 2002 / James Rhem
The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater is Meatyard’s swan song, mostly produced in the last two years of his short life ( he died in 1972) This work was published posthumously . The original edition , was published in 1974 , by his friends Jonathan Williams at the Jargon Society , North Carolina .
The 64 portraits of Lucybelle Crater at once comic & tragic, grotesque & beautiful , features R.E.Meatyard’s wife, Madelyn – who plays «Lucybelle» – in a hag’s Halloween mask together with a masked friend or relative.
Hardcover , black paper over boards with blind title stamped on front cover and spine under illustrated dust jacket .
