Times review of Meatyard show at ICP

Grace Glueck has written a review of the Ralph Eugene Meatyard show at ICP in today's NY Times.

It struck me that Meatyard had such masterful teachers, really high profile guys who are now revered at photography gods. I think guys on that level were forced to do a lot of teaching because it was so much harder to make a living as a art photographer until only just recently. You don't see today's luminaries teaching as much.

Meatyards' variety of styles and subject matter was unusual compared to today, when an artist often finds a unique trope early in their career and then is encouraged to drive it into the ground. Meatyards mask-centric images are perhaps the most media-genic, and thus widely reproduced in articles about the show. Unfortunately, they point to easy, but wrongheaded, comparisons to Diane Arbus.