Gabriela Jimenez
Ralph Eugene Meatyard “Untitled [Interior with two boys]”
1961 Gelatin Silver Prints
The image is of Meatyard’s sons. He enhanced their separation of the boys by associating each figure with different tonal values and deliberately obscured their identities through shadow motion and shallow depth of field. This is Meatyard’s drama.
I selected this because it reminded me of my little brother. This image expresses to me the kind of the uncertainty of the kind of men these two boys will develop into. Since the faces of the boys are blurred it’s unclear of who they are now and brings more mystery of who they will become. It also combines two different oppositions, youth and maturity, present and future, clarity and uncertainty by the use of blur, light and color. This image is about the unknown and it reminds me of how I see my little brother Oscar. Although he is young and innocent there is no knowing how he will grow up or who he will be. Will he be a good man, will he do good things or will he follow the later road? I think it represents his wonder and worry of his children their future similarly to how I feel towards my little brother.
