Joel Meyerowitz

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

Life

Coming from the advertising industry, Meyerowitz began to photograph in 1962. He quickly made ​​a name for itself 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. Similar to William Eggleston or Stephen Shore, he is one of the pioneers of artistic color photography. In his color photographs, Meyerowitz turned to topics such as portrait and architecture.

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

Meyerowitz today manages the image archive to the destroyed World Trade Center in New York.

Works (selection)

• Plant complex Out of the Ordinary (1980-1980)

Meyerowitz photographed New York City, the suburbs, rural lands, provincial cities and vacation and leisure landscape of the United States.

• Series Aftermath (2001-2002)

Photographs after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Contrary to the official photo shots Meyerowitz was the site of Ground Zero's artistic document.

Photo Books

• Cape Light ( 1979)
• St Louis & the Arch ( 1981)
• A Summer's Day (1985 )
• Wildflowers (1986 )
• The Arch (1988 )
• Creating a sense of place (1990 )
• Redheads (1991 )
• The Nutcracker (1993 )
• Bay / Sky ( 1993)
• Bystander: A History of Street Photography (1994 )
• La natura delle città (1995 )
• Tuscany (2003)