Joel Meyerowitz

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Joel Meyerowitz,
Cologne, November 27, 2003

Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, 1938 in Bronx , New York ) is an American photographer .

Life

Coming from the advertising industry, Meyerowitz began taking photos in 1962. He quickly made a name for himself as a genre photographer who documented street scenes in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson . His profession was initially black and white photography , in the mid-1960s he turned to color photography . Comparable to William Eggleston or Stephen Shore , he is one of the pioneers of artistic color photography. In his color photographs Meyerowitz also turned to subjects such as portrait and architecture.

His first book, Cape Light (1979), is dedicated to the Cape Cod landscape .

Meyerowitz is now in charge of the image archive for the destroyed World Trade Center in New York.

Exhibitions

  • 2014: Joel Meyerowitz - Retrospective . NRW-Forum Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf, curated by Ralph Goertz. Exhibition catalog.
  • 2015: Joel Meyerowitz - Retrospective . Kunst Haus Wien , curated by Verena Kaspar-Eisert. July 17th to November 1st, 2015.
  • 2017: Joel Meyerowitz. Why Color? Retrospective . CO Berlin , December 9, 2017 to March 11, 2018.

Works

  • Of works Out of the Ordinary (1980-1980)
    Meyerowitz photographed New York City, the suburbs, rural lands, provincial towns and holiday and leisure idyll of the United States.
  • Aftermath series : World Trade Center Archive (2001–2002). Phaidon, London 2006, ISBN 0-7148-4655-4 .
    Photographs after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Contrary to the official ban on photography, Meyerowitz was able to artistically document the grounds of the Ground Zero .
  • License to see , Zurich: Midas Verlag , 2020

Photo books

  • Cape Light (1979).
  • St Louis & the Arch (1981).
  • A summer's day . Towin, New York City 1985, ISBN 0-8129-1182-2 .,
  • Wild Flowers (1986).
  • The Arch (1988).
  • Creating a sense of place (1990)
  • Redheads . Rizzoli, New York City 1991, ISBN 0-8478-1419-X .
  • The Nutcracker (1993).
  • Bay / Sky (1993).
  • At the Water's Edge (1993).
  • Bystander: A History of Street Photography (1994).
  • La natura delle città (1995).
  • Joel Meyerowitz , text by Colin Westerbeck . Phaidon, London 2001, ISBN 0-7148-4021-1 .
  • Tuscany . 2003.
  • Exhibition catalog: Joel Meyerowitz -Retrospective . Bookstore König, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86335-588-3 .

Movies

  • Ralph Goertz: Joel Meyerowitz - Sense of Time. Documentary, 60 min., König Buchhandlung, Cologne 2014.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Joel Meyerowitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lots of clicks. In: FAZ . October 23, 2014, p. R6.
personal data
SURNAME Meyerowitz, Joel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York