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American photographer

Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, )^[1] is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer.

He began photographing in color in and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art. In the early s he taught photography at the Cooper Union in New York City.^[2][3]

His work is in the collections of the International Center of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, and New York Public Library, all in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.

Career

In , inspired by seeing Robert Frank at work, Meyerowitz quit his job as an art director at an advertising agency^[4][5][6] and took to the streets of New York City with a 35 mm camera and color film. As well as Frank, Meyerowitz was inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Eugène Atget—he has said "In the pantheon of greats there is Robert Frank and there is Atget."^[7]

After alternating between black and white and color, Meyerowitz "permanently adopted color" in ,^[8]:&#;&#; well before John Szarkowski's promotion in of color photography in an exhibition of work by the then little-known William Eggleston.^{[8]:&#;–&#;} Meyerowitz also switched at this time to large format,^[8]:&#;&#; often using an 8×10 camera to produce photographs of places and people.

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

He is the author of many books including Cape Light, considered a classic work of color photography.^[9] Meyerowitz photographed the aftermath of the September 11, attack on the World Trade Center, and was the only photographer allowed unrestricted access to its Ground Zero immediately following the attack.^[10] This resulted in the book Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive (),^[11] which Parr and Badger include in the third volume of their photobook history.^[12]

On January 18, Meyerowitz was honored for his lifelong work with a place at the Leica Hall of Fame and was described as a "magician using colour" and being able to "both capture and framing the decisive moment".^[13]

Personal life

Meyerowitz was born in the Bronx, to working class Jewish immigrant parents from Hungary and Russia.^[14] He studied art, art history, and medical illustration at Ohio State University,^[15] graduating in ^[16] He is married to English novelist Maggie Barrett.

In addition to their home in New York City, they maintain a residence outside of Siena, Tuscany, Italy.^[17]

Publications

Photo books and monographs

• Cape Light: Color Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz. With a transcript of an interview between Meyerowitz and Bruce K. MacDonald.

  Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ISBN&#;

• St. Louis and the Arch. New York: New York Graphic Society, ISBN&#;
• Wild Flowers. Boston: Bulfinch, ISBN&#;
• A Summer's Day. New York: Crown, ISBN&#;
• Creating a Sense of Place. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, ISBN&#;
• Redheads.

  New York, NY: Rizzoli, ISBN&#;X.

• Bay/Sky. Boston: Bulfinch, ISBN&#;
• At the Water's Edge. Boston: Bulfinch, ISBN&#;
• Joel Meyerowitz. Text by Colin Westerbeck.
  Joel meyerowitz photographer boston Joel Meyerowitz is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer who pioneered color photography as serious art. He photographed the aftermath of 9/11, wrote 26 books, and was inducted into the Leica Hall of Fame.

  London: Phaidon, ISBN&#;

• Tuscany: Inside the Light. New York: Barnes & Noble, ISBN&#;
• Aftermath. London: Phaidon, ISBN&#;
• Out of the Ordinary . Rotterdam: Episode, ISBN&#;
• Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks. New York: Aperture, ISBN&#;
• Between the Dog and the Wolf.

  Joel meyerowitz early work: Joel Meyerowitz is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer who pioneered color photography as serious art. He photographed the aftermath of 9/11, wrote 26 books, and was inducted into the Leica Hall of Fame.

  Kamakura, Japan: Super Labo, ISBN&#; Edition of copies.

• Joel Meyerowitz - Retrospective. Cologne / New York: Koenig Books / D.A.P., ISBN&#;
• Glimpse. Tokyo: Super Labo, ISBN&#; Edition of copies.
• Out of the Darkness: Six Months in Andalusia ~ Madrid: La Fábrica, ISBN&#;
• Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective. London: Laurence King, ISBN&#; With a text by Colin Westerbeck.

Further publications

• Bystander: A History of Street Photography.

  With Colin Westerbeck. Boston: Bulfinch, ISBN

  • UK edition: London: Thames & Hudson ISBN (2nd ed.: Norton Co ).
  • Paperback edition with a new afterword on street photography since the s: Boston: Bulfinch/Little Brown, ISBN
  • New revised and expanded edition: London: Laurence King, ISBN
• Paul Strand: The Gardens of Orgeval.

  Selection and text by Meyerowitz. New York: Aperture ISBN

• Pictures from Moving Cars. Photographs by Meyerowitz, Daido Moriyama und John Divola, Abad, ^[19]
• Colin Westerbeck: Vivian Maier: The Color Work. Foreword by Joel Meyerowitz. New York: Harper Collins ISBN
• Seeing Things.

  A Kid's Guide to Looking at Photographs. New York: Aperture ISBN

• Joel Meyerowitz: How I Make Photographs. Masters of Photography. London: Laurence King ISBN
• The Pleasure of Seeing. Conversations with Joel Meyerowitz on Sixty Years in the Life of Photography. Bologna: Damiani ISBN

Literature

Awards

Exhibitions

• My European Trip: Photographs from the Car by Joel Meyerowitz, MOMA, August 3–September 29, ^[23]
• Joel Meyerowitz: Modern Color, Vintage Prints, Edwynn Houk Gallery, April 27 — June 17, ^[24]
• Joel Meyerowitz - 50 Years of Photographs Part I: - , November–December ;^[25] and Joel Meyerowitz - 50 Years of Photographs Part II: - , December – January ,^[26] Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
• Joel Meyerowitz Retrospektive, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, (curated by Ralph Goertz),^[27]
• Joel Meyerowitz - Transition, Howard Greenberg Gallery, September 7 - October 21, ^[29]

Collections

References

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