The image I selected is a piece by Ralph Eugene Meatyard, I chose this particular image because like most all of Meatyard's photographs it is intriguing and weird looking. Most all of Meatyard's photographs have surrealist elements within, this image in particular was meant to poke fun at high art. In the image was taken in a sports stadium and the "sports fans" are replaced by "indifferent gnome like" creatures that are wearing oversized masks. Meatyard would make his friends and family wear the masks and pose, this image title is reference to one of Ambrose Bierce's satirical pieces in which he defines romance as "fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as they are". What intrigues me about Meatyard's image is his use of the masks in the photograph because he saw the mask as a way of "non-personalizing a person" by having the subjects wear the masks allows for the subjects to become one rather than many.
