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Here I examine how Meads’s studio photos use what the photographer calls “closet anarchy”—an anarchy that harkens back to the hillbilly stylistics of RFD—to undercut urbane cross-identifications with a major “gay” icon like Caravaggio. Finally, I close by turning to Meads’s controversial images of queer “rednecks” and rebel flags, politically disturbing works that continue to propel viewers beyond the epistemologies of their citified gaze.

Alabama Souvenirs At first glance, we might be tempted to situate Meads’s photos within a familiar strain of contemporary American art such as New York–based photographer Larry Clark’s Tulsa (1971), Teenage Lust (1983), and Larry Clark: 1992 (1992); Nan Goldin’s extensive record of East Villagers in I’ll Be Your Mirror (1996); and Janine Gordon’s photographic records of white male moshers such as fuckshittup (2001).12 As critics try to make sense of his art, they frequently place Meads alongside these artists in mainstream reviews as well as in popular adolescent boy culture Web sites like that of the now- defunct Pavement (http://www.pavementmagazine.com/).

Eastaboga photographs, one Village Voice reviewer argues, “look like a combination of Larry Clark’s Tulsa updates and some white-trash porn shoot.”13 In a personal interview, however, Meads is adamant that his connection to these artists and their realistic docu-projects is negligible. “On Larry and Nan I just wanted to add a few comments,” I was told when I asked about their possible influence. “The more of his work that I see the less I think that there is any relation between what he does and what I do. … Remember that I was doing this long before I had ever heard of Larry Clark or Nan Goldin (of course they have been making photos much longer than I).

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