CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/2/2016

Joel Meyerowitz: Morandi's Objects

"I fell in love with Giorgio Morandi ten years before I fell in love with Joel Meyerowitz," Maggie Barrett writes in Morandi's Objects, Damiani's gorgeous new collection of photographs by her husband of the Italian painter's objects and studio. "Of course, when I was first introduced to Morandi he was already dead, whereas Meyerowitz was, and is, very much alive. But I like to think that there was a similar quality in these two men that attracted me to them; a quality of stillness imbued with the latent energy of time. So that within the frame, be it painting or photograph, what first appears to be simplistic and familiar, upon longer reflection reveals the complexity not only of the object but also of the subject. Whether it is a collection of vases and bottles in a Morandi painting or an everyday street scene in a Meyerowitz photograph, the images convey a mystery deeper than their surface." Featured image is "Tall Green Bottle" (2015).