JOEL MEYEROWITZ

Joel Meyerowitz
An introduction to the pioneering work of the innovator and teacher.Colin Westerbeck

An introduction to the pioneering work of Joel Meyerowitz (b. 1938), innovator and teacher of many now greatly admired photographers
Only book to cover all genres of Meyerowitz's work, including his black-and-white street photography and the colour Cape Cod seascapes
Documents the development of Meyerowitz's photography through a chronologically presented sequence of 55 images with picture-by-picture commentaries by the photographer, full of entertaining and personal anecdotes
Introductory essay by Colin Westerbeck, who has known and worked with Meyerowitz for years, clearly situates Meyerowitz and his work as a seminal figure in street and colour photography

This monograph forms an introduction to the major themes and the key images of American photographer Joel Meyerowitz, illustrated with 55 chronologically-presented images that offer a fresh insight into his career.

An introductory essay by Colin Westerbeck discusses Meyerowitz's life and work and places him both in the context of his time and within the history of photography. Born in 1938 in New York City, Meyerowitz went to Ohio to study painting and medical drawing at the State University but moved back to New York to work in advertising as an art director-designer.

He then started to take photographs, leaving his job to concentrate on his new career. Shooting film in black-and-white, he travelled around the United States for three months after which he was offered a Guggenheim Scholarship to take pictures on the theme of 'leisure time'.

It is as an early advocate of colour photography that Meyerowitz has had the greatest influence, for he was instrumental in changing the attitude toward the use of colour from one of resistance to nearly universal acceptance.

His subject matter evolved from incidents on city streets shot with a small 35 mm camera to the large format field photograph. Architecture, light and space - particularly at Cape Cod - acquired a new interest for him. After the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York, he was the only photographer granted unimpeded access to Ground Zero where he systemati