American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard said that masks erased the differences between people.     One day in 1958 or ’59, professional optician and “dedicated amateur” photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard (May 15, 1925 – May 7, 1972) bought a few dozen masks in a branch of Woolworths in Lexington, Kentucky. “He immediately liked their properties,” … Continue reading "Ralph Eugene Meatyard : Masks And Dolls" The post Ralph Eugene Meatyard : Masks And Dolls appeared first on Flashbak.

A Royal Skeleton in the Chapel JamesHoare Thu, 06/12/2025 - 07:00

In the early 1st millennium BCE, the Scythians burst onto the ancient Near Eastern geopolitical scene in a frenzy of violence. The upstart Indo-European nomads upended the early Iron Age system that had developed in the region. By the late 7th century BCE, they made themselves one of the region’s major powers. But the […]

Homer's Women: Podcast with Emily Hauser

Unlike some artists, Hieronymus Bosch was famous in his own time and inspired a generation of artists with his groundbreaking style and unusual subject matter. Even in his pieces that seem more straightforward and less fantastical, Bosch often wove in nuanced layers of meaning, moralizing allegory, and thinly veiled criticisms of various societal classes. […]