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Joel Meyerowitz

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


The Bronx River is my Mississippi. Though narrow and shallow and short, it is nonetheless a river and even in miniature possesses all the mystery and motion of its more powerful brethren. I can stand for long moments of reverie-taken in by the dappled, fractured complexity of light and shadow, surface and reflection, movement and stillness happening all at once. A river is a harmony of opposites.
Joel Meyerowitz excerpted in a Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks, published by Aperture.

Joel Meyerowitz (born in New York, 1938) is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He is a two-time Guggenheim fellow, a recipient of both NEA and NEH awards, as well as a recipient of the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis. He has published over fifteen books, including Cape Light (1978), Aftermath: The World Trade Center Archive (2006) and Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks. He lives in New York.

         

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The Pleasure of Seeing

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By Joel Meyerowitz and Lorenzo Braca.

The oral autobiography of one of American photography’s most legendary figures

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Joel Meyerowitz: Redheads

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Text by Joel Meyerowitz.

An expanded edition of Meyerowitz’s acclaimed study of the many shades and styles of red hair

Hbk, 9.25 x 11 in. / 120 pgs / 70 color. | 6/14/2022 | In stock
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Joel Meyerowitz: Wild Flowers, Limited Edition

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Text by Joel Meyerowitz, Maggie Barrett.

Special edition, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 128 pgs / 90 color. | 6/15/2021 | Out of stock
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Joel Meyerowitz: Cézanne's Objects

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Text by Joel Meyerowitz, Maggie Barrett.

Meyerowitz brilliantly demonstrates how Cézanne’s studio and its contents enhanced the flatness of his paintings

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Joel Meyerowitz: Sense of Time

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The Pleasure of SeeingThe Pleasure of Seeing

Conversations with Joel Meyerowitz on Sixty Years in the Life of Photography

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By Joel Meyerowitz and Lorenzo Braca.

Joel Meyerowitz is one of the pioneers of color photography, street photography, large-format photography and portraiture. The Pleasure of Seeing offers a look behind the scenes of his life and career. In conversation with historian and photographer Lorenzo Braca, Meyerowitz describes meeting Robert Frank; photographing on the streets of New York City with Tony Ray-Jones and Garry Winogrand; traveling across America and Europe; learning from John Szarkowski; working on exhibitions and publications; photographing at Ground Zero in 2001 and 2002; and producing his most recent still lifes and self-portraits.
Meyerowitz reveals the stories behind many of his famous photographs and discusses the value of the visual image as well as technical details concerning cameras and lenses, the printing process and various films. The book features over 100 images, including Meyerowitz’s most iconic photographs and new and previously unpublished material.
Born in the Bronx in 1938, Joel Meyerowitz began capturing everyday scenes on the streets of New York in 1962 and was an early adopter of color film for the genre, advocating its use when many photographers resisted its popularization. He has published more than 35 books.
Lorenzo Braca (born 1977) is an Italian historian and photographer who has published widely on the literature and imagination of the late Middle Ages. His photography explores the urban environment. His first solo exhibition was held in 2021.



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Joel Meyerowitz: RedheadsJoel Meyerowitz: Redheads

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Text by Joel Meyerowitz.

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) began photographing redheads in 1978 against the contrasting blue backdrop of Cape Cod. The portraits from this period are collected in this new edition of Meyerowitz's 1991 photobook Redheads, featuring 16 additional images. After running an ad in the Provincetown Advocate, Meyerowitz began collecting the experiences of people who grew up with red hair, in addition to photographing them. Making up only two or three percent of the world’s population, their stories of schoolyard bullying and self-acceptance illustrate a broader narrative of growth and beauty.
Despite cultural and racial distinctions between redheads, the phenotypic association between the subjects brings a sense of familiality to the collection of portraits.
Meyerowitz describes how red hair and its reaction to light evokes a sense of the color film process. He is known for his transition to color film during a period of resistance to color photography. “My way of making portraits is not by getting down on my hands and knees, nor climbing high on a ladder, nor getting into bed with a celebrity,” Meyerowitz writes, “but simply standing eye to eye with anyone who has found their way to me, young or old. I need only one or two sheets of film and the patience to see it through.” This hardcover edition includes previously unseen portraits.



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Joel Meyerowitz: Wild FlowersJoel Meyerowitz: Wild Flowers

Published by Damiani.
Text by Joel Meyerowitz, Maggie Barrett.

This new and expanded edition of Joel Meyerowitz’s widely acclaimed 1983 photobook Wild Flowers features new and unpublished images, and a larger format. For nearly 50 years Meyerowitz has tended his visual garden in the streets, parks and cities that he has visited or lived in. He goes into the streets wide-eyed and passionate, carrying a machine ideally suited to the task of taking it all in.

One day, while editing, Meyerowitz stumbled upon a small group of photographs featuring flowers, which he had accumulated without realizing. He began to see that this innocent premise might serve to bring together a variety of his other photographic interests. Thus Wild Flowers was born. With a unique sense of visual humor and an unmatched attention to detail, Meyorowitz invites readers to see the natural beauty in the busy city landscape.

Born in the Bronx in 1938, Joel Meyerowitz is best known for his extensive street photography practice. He began capturing everyday scenes on the streets of New York in 1962 and was an early adopter of color film for the genre, advocating for its use when many self-serious career photographers resisted its popularization. He has published 35 books.



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Joel Meyerowitz: Wild Flowers, Limited EditionJoel Meyerowitz: Wild Flowers, Limited Edition

Published by Damiani.
Text by Joel Meyerowitz, Maggie Barrett.

This limited edition of 25 copies includes an 8 x 10" print signed and numbered by Joel Meyerowitz.



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Joel Meyerowitz: Out of the DarknessJoel Meyerowitz: Out of the Darkness

Six Months in Andalusia, 1966-1967

Published by La Fábrica.
Text by Francesco Zanot, Miguel López-Remiro. Interview by Nuria Enguita.

In 1966 and 1967, color photography pioneer Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) traveled across Spain taking hundreds of pictures that together comprise a remarkable document of 1960s Spain. At this time he was taking photographs both in color and black and white, but this period in Spain marked a creative turning point in the photographer’s career, and from 1972 onward, following the completion of this body of work, he would only photograph in color.

Joel Meyerowitz: Out of the Darkness brings together some 100 images of this pivotal trip, which are divided across four thematic chapters —"State," "Street," "From the Car" and "Flamenco"— and includes texts by Francesco Zanot and Miguel López-Remiro, as well as an interview between Meyerowitz and Nuria Enguita, the director of Bombas Gens in Valencia.



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Joel Meyerowitz: Cézanne's ObjectsJoel Meyerowitz: Cézanne's Objects

Published by Damiani.
Text by Joel Meyerowitz, Maggie Barrett.

Some years ago, while working on a book commission about Provence, Joel Meyerowitz visited Cézanne’s studio in Aix-en-Provence. While there, he experienced a flash of understanding about Cézanne’s art. Cézanne had painted the studio walls a dark gray, mixing the color himself. Consequently, every object in the studio seemed to be absorbed into the gray of the background. There were no telltale reflections around the edges of the objects, so there was nothing that could separate them from the background itself. Meyerowitz suddenly saw how Cézanne, making his small, patch-like brush marks, moved from the object to the background, and back again to the objects, without the illusion of perspective. After all, Cézanne was the original voice of “flatness.”

Meyerowitz decided to take each of the objects in Cézanne’s studio and view them against the gray wall (managing to obtain permission from the Director of the Atelier—no-one had touched these objects in ages). His impulse was to place each one in the exact same spot on his marble-topped table and just make a “dumb” record of it. He then decided to arrange them in rows, almost as if they were back on his shelf above the table, and made a grid of five rows with five objects on each row, with Cézanne’s hat as the centerpiece.

This beautifully designed volume presents these photographs, which are at once marvelous photographic still lifes and an incredible revelation of Cézanne’s methods.



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Joel Meyerowitz: Cézanne's ObjectsJoel Meyerowitz: Cézanne's Objects

Limited Edition

Published by Damiani.
Text by Maggie Barrett.

Published in a limited edition of 25 copies, this elegant boxed volume presents Joel Meyerowitz’ masterful color photographs of Cézanne’s atelier and its objects, and includes a photograph signed and numbered by the artist.



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Joel Meyerowitz: Morandi's ObjectsJoel Meyerowitz: Morandi's Objects

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Text by Joel Meyerowitz, Maggie Barrett.

In Spring 2015, the photographer Joel Meyerowitz sat at the work table in Giorgio Morandi’s Bologna home, in the exact spot where the painter had sat for over 40 years making his quiet, sublime still lifes. Here Meyerowitz looked at, touched, studied and connected with the more than 250 objects that Morandi painted. Using only the warm natural light in the room, he photographed Morandi’s objects: vases, shells, pigment-filled bottles, silk flowers, tins, funnels, watering cans. In the photographs, each object sits on Morandi’s table, which still bears the marks the painter drew to set the positions of his subjects. In the background is the same paper that Morandi left on the wall, now brittle and yellow with age. Meyerowitz’s portraits of these dusty, aged objects are not only works of art themselves, but they offer insight into the humble subjects that Morandi transformed into his subtle and luminous paintings.
Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) is a street photographer and portrait and landscape photographer. The New York native began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color at a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art. Many of his photographs are icons of modern photography, and he is considered one of the most influential modern photographers and representatives of the New Color Photography of the 1960s and ’70s. His work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions around the world and is in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art, New York and many other museums worldwide.

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Joel Meyerowitz: Morandi's ObjectsJoel Meyerowitz: Morandi's Objects

Limited Edition

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Text by Joel Meyerowitz, Maggie Barrett.

The collector’s edition of Morandi’s Objects, limited to 25 copies, includes the book and an archival digital photograph, “The Last Object,” signed and numbered by the artist.

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Joel Meyerowitz: RetrospectiveJoel Meyerowitz: Retrospective

Published by D.A.P./Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.
Edited by Ralph Goertz. Text by Joel Meyerowitz, Jörg Sasse, Ralph Goertz.

Alongside William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld and Mitch Epstein, New York–born and bred Joel Meyerowitz is one of the most important representatives of the New Color Photography movement of the 1960s and 70s. This retrospective traces his entire oeuvre, from his street photography to his light experimentations made during "the blue hour" in Cape Cod, and includes famous series such as Cape Light, After September 11: Images from Ground Zero, Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks, in addition to the artist's much-loved early work—his first trip to Europe in 1967, and his concurrent transition from black and white to color—which has been much less widely published. Though Meyerowitz admired Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, and shares their uncanny ability to grasp a human being on the street as both an individual and a representative of a larger social context, his handling of space and composition consciously differs from that of his idols, his framing less synchronized, the moments he captures, interestingly, less perfect. This square hardback volume compiles the artist's iconic images, and is an essential addition to any photography book collection.

Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the world. The New York native began photographing the streets in 1962 and by the mid-60s became an early advocate of color photography who was instrumental in transforming a general resistance to color film into an almost universal acceptance.

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Joel Meyerowitz: Cape LightJoel Meyerowitz: Cape Light

Published by Aperture.
Interview by Bruce K. MacDonald.

Cape Light, Joel Meyerowitz's series of serene and contemplative color photographs taken on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, quickly became one of the most influential and popular photobooks in the latter part of the 20th century after its publication in 1978, breaking new ground both for color photography and for the medium's acceptance in the art world. Now, more than 35 years later, Joel Meyerowitz: Cape Light is back. This edition features all the now-iconic images, newly remastered and luxuriously printed in a larger format.
In Cape Light, everyday scenes--an approaching storm, a local grocery store at dusk, the view through a bedroom window--are transformed by the stunning natural light of Cape Cod and the luminous vision of the photographer. Though Meyerowitz had begun shooting in color on the streets of New York a decade earlier, it was this collection of photographs that brought his sensitive color photography to wider notice. Meyerowitz is a contemporary master of color photography, and this powerful, captivating photobook is a classic of the genre.
Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the world. The New York native began photographing street scenes in 1962, and by the mid-1960s became an early advocate of color photography who was instrumental in the legitimation and growing acceptance of color film. Meyerowitz explains his pioneering choice to shoot in color simply: "It describes more things."

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Joel Meyerowitz: Sense of TimeJoel Meyerowitz: Sense of Time

A Film by Ralph Goertz

Published by Koenig Books.

Alongside Stephen Shore and William Eggleston, Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) counts as one of the most significant representatives of the American New Color Photography from the 1960 and 70s. His classic street photographs made in New York, his examinations of Cape Cod and his Aftermath series have become icons of contemporary photography.
This hour-long, widescreen, retrospective documentary gives an overview of nearly every series Meyerowitz made over the last 52 years. The filmmakers were allowed to accompany the photographer over three years and went out on the streets of New York and Paris, also following his footsteps in Cape Cod, France and Italy.

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Joel Meyerowitz: Legacy Box SetJoel Meyerowitz: Legacy Box Set

The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks

Published by Aperture.
Introduction by Michael Bloomberg. Text by Phillip Lopate. Afterword by Adrian Benepe.

Aperture is pleased to offer a very special limited-edition print and book box set, featuring three unique components created as part of Meyerowitz's most recent project—a compelling body of work resulting from a commission he received from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to document the city's parks. Each custom-designed clamshell box contains a copy of the book Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks with a special-edition bellyband, as well as The Hallett, a limited-edition book featuring one of the artist's favorite spots—the Hallett Nature Sanctuary in Manhattan. The Hallett was designed and printed exclusively for this edition using an HP Indigo Digital Press. Also included is a 10 x 12 inch HP archival pigment print, made personally by the artist. Each book and print is signed and numbered by Meyerowitz.

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Boxed Hardcover, 2 Volumes, 12.5 x 11 in. / 338 pgs / 334 color /Edition of 250 copies

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Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City ParksLegacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks

Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz

Published by Aperture.
Introduction by Michael Bloomberg. Text by Phillip Lopate.

Hidden pockets of wilderness still exist within the urban environs of New York City, and in Legacy Joel Meyerowitz invites us to discover them. This beautiful body of work is the result of a unique commission Meyerowitz received from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to document the city's parks. During the course of this project, Meyerowitz honed in on the 8,700 acres within the five boroughs of New York City that still exist in their original pristine state, as well as areas within parks that have been left to revert to wilderness. In creating this work, Meyerowitz has drawn on his own childhood memories of a New York that included "green space--open and wild, alive with rabbits, migratory birds, snakes, frogs and the occasional skunk--[that] gave me my first sense of the natural world, its temperament and its seasons, its unpredictability and its mystery." Through this rich compendium of images of parks, shorelines and forests, Meyerowitz's magnificent project transports the viewer into the heart of a lush wilderness, while contextualizing these nooks of nature as an inextricable part of city life today.
Joel Meyerowitz (born in New York, 1938) is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He is a two-time Guggenheim fellow, a recipient of both NEA and NEH awards, as well as a recipient of the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis. He has published over 15 books, including Cape Light (1978) and Aftermath: The World Trade Center Archive (2006). He lives in New York.

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