Joel Meyerowitz

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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Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks 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
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ISBN: 9781597111225
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Joel Meyerowitz: Legacy Box Set 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
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Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz' awe-inspiring photographs of New York City wilderness are collected in Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks, with an introduction by Michael Bloomberg.

Joel Meyerowitz: Legacy Box Set

The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks

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

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.

Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks

Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz

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

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.