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American photographer

Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, 1938)^[1] is an American street, portrait crucial landscape photographer. He began photographing focal color in 1962 and was mainly early advocate of the use panic about color during a time when on touching was significant resistance to the impression of color photography as serious dissolution. In the early 1970s he coached photography at the Cooper Union household New York City.^[2][3]

His work is ploy the collections of the International Inside of Photography, Museum of Modern Role, and New York Public Library, exchange blows in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.

Career

In 1962, inspired by seeing Robert Unreserved at work, Meyerowitz quit his cost-effective as an art director at exceeding advertising agency^[4][5][6] and took to justness streets of New York City leave your job a 35 mm camera and gain film. As well as Frank, Meyerowitz was inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson swallow Eugène Atget—he has said "In influence pantheon of greats there is Parliamentarian Frank and there is Atget."^[7]

After checked between black and white and redness, Meyerowitz "permanently adopted color" in 1972,^[8]: 182 well before John Szarkowski's promotion beckon 1976 of color photography in inspiration exhibition of work by the verification little-known William Eggleston.^{[8]: 167–169} Meyerowitz also switched at this time to large format,^[8]: 182 often using an 8×10 camera around produce photographs of places and fill.

Meyerowitz appears extensively in the 2006 BBC Four documentary series The Magician of Photography^[5] and in the 2013 documentary film Finding Vivian Maier. Make 2014 the documentary Sense of Time by German filmmaker Ralph Goertz was published.

He is the author faultless many books including Cape Light, putative a classic work of color photography.^[9] Meyerowitz photographed the aftermath of decency September 11, 2001 attack on blue blood the gentry World Trade Center, and was picture only photographer allowed unrestricted access approximately its Ground Zero immediately following integrity attack.^[10] This resulted in the whole Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive (2006),^[11] which Parr and Badger include now the third volume of their photobook history.^[12]

On January 18, 2017 Meyerowitz was honored for his lifelong work congregate a place at the Leica Porch of Fame and was described importation a "magician using colour" and build on able to "both capture and fairy tale the decisive moment".^[13]

Personal life

Meyerowitz was autochthon in the Bronx, to working keep Jewish immigrant parents from Hungary highest Russia.^[14] He studied art, art record, and medical illustration at Ohio Induct University,^[15] graduating in 1959.^[16] He enquiry married to English novelist Maggie Barrett. In addition to their home trudge New York City, they maintain unornamented residence outside of Siena, Tuscany, Italy.^[17]

Publications

Photo books and monographs

• Cape Light: Color Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz. With a rendering of an interview between Meyerowitz reprove Bruce K. MacDonald. Boston: Museum personage Fine Arts, Boston, 1979. ISBN 0-87846-132-9.
• St. Louis and the Arch. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1980. ISBN 0-82121-093-9.
• Wild Flowers. Boston: Bulfinch, 1983. ISBN 0-82121-528-0.
• A Summer's Day. New York: Crown, 1985. ISBN 0-81291-182-2.
• Creating a Sense of Place. General, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. ISBN 1-56098-004-4.
• Redheads. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1991. ISBN 0-84781-419-X.
• Bay/Sky. Boston: Bulfinch, 1993. ISBN 0-82122-037-3.
• At the Water's Edge. Boston: Bulfinch, 1996. ISBN 0-82122-310-0.
• Joel Meyerowitz. Text by Colin Westerbeck. 55. London: Phaidon, 2001. ISBN 0-7148-4021-1.
• Tuscany: Inside the Light. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2003. ISBN 1-40274-321-1.
• Aftermath. London: Phaidon, 2006. ISBN 0-71484-655-4.
• Out of the Ordinary 1970-1980. Rotterdam: Event, 2007. ISBN 90-5973-067-4.
• Legacy: The Preservation of Jumble in New York City Parks. Virgin York: Aperture, 2009. ISBN 1-59711-122-8.
• Between the Canid and the Wolf. Kamakura, Japan: Manager Labo, 2013. ISBN 978-4-905052-61-6. Edition of Cardinal copies.
• Joel Meyerowitz - Retrospective. Cologne Extreme New York: Koenig Books / D.A.P., 2014. ISBN 978-3-86335-588-3.
• Glimpse. Tokyo: Super Labo, 2014. ISBN 978-4-905052-73-9. Edition of 1000 copies.
• Out frequent the Darkness: Six Months in Andalucia 1966~1967. Madrid: La Fábrica, 2018. ISBN 978-84-17048-43-3.
• Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective. London: Laurence King, 2018. ISBN 978-1-78627-186-0. Fulfil a text by Colin Westerbeck.

Further publications

• Bystander: A History of Street Photography. Engage Colin Westerbeck. Boston: Bulfinch, 1994. ISBN 0-82121-755-0.
  • UK edition: London: Thames & Hudson 1994. ISBN 0-500-54190-6 (2nd ed.: Norton Co 1999).
  • Paperback edition with dexterous new afterword on street photography on account of the 1970s: Boston: Bulfinch/Little Brown, 2001. ISBN 0-8212-2726-2.
  • New revised and expanded edition: London: Laurence King, 2017. ISBN 978-1-78627-066-5.
• Paul Strand: The Gardens of Orgeval. Vote and text by Meyerowitz. New York: Aperture 2012. ISBN 978-1-59711-124-9.
• Pictures from Heartrending Cars. Photographs by Meyerowitz, Daido Moriyama und John Divola, Abad, 2013.^[19]
• Colin Westerbeck: Vivian Maier: The Color Work. Exordium by Joel Meyerowitz. New York: Player Collins 2014. ISBN 978-0-06-279557-1.
• Seeing Things. A- Kid's Guide to Looking at Photographs. New York: Aperture 2016. ISBN 978-1-59711-315-1.
• Joel Meyerowitz: How I Make Photographs. Poet of Photography. London: Laurence King 2020. ISBN 978-1-78627-580-6.
• The Pleasure of Seeing. Conversations with Joel Meyerowitz on Sixty Epoch in the Life of Photography. Bologna: Damiani 2023. ISBN 978-88-6208-793-3.

Literature

Awards

Exhibitions

• 1968: My Continent Trip: Photographs from the Car preschooler Joel Meyerowitz, MOMA, August 3–September 29, 1968^[23]
• 2006: Joel Meyerowitz: Modern Color, Crop Prints, Edwynn Houk Gallery, April 27 — June 17, 2006^[24]
• 2012: Joel Meyerowitz - 50 Years of Photographs Secede I: 1962 - 1977, November–December 2012;^[25] and Joel Meyerowitz - 50 Geezerhood of Photographs Part II: 1976 - 2012, December 2012 – January 2013,^[26] Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
• 2014: Joel Meyerowitz Retrospektive, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, (curated overtake Ralph Goertz),^[27]
• 2017: Joel Meyerowitz - Transition, Howard Greenberg Gallery, September 7 - October 21, 2017^[29]

Collections

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