CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/5/2022

A new, expanded edition of Joel Meyerowitz's 1991 photobook, 'Redheads'

“Daisy, Provincetown” (1980) is reproduced from Joel Meyerowitz: Redheads—a book that remains compelling no matter how many times you page through. “I feel that there are three transparent layers of truth to be seen at the moment of making a portrait,” Meyerowitz writes. “The first layer is what the camera sees; the indisputable record of the actual physical fact of the person who stands before me: what he, or she, or they, look like at this moment. The second layer of truth is mine. What do I perceive? I see a body coil and shift, expressions tremble and dissolve; while I wait for some signal from within so I can say yes to what I see. The third layer of truth is the presence behind the observable fact, the struggling human being who rises and subsides in front of the camera, like breath itself, or like the tides. I have seen that with patience and watchfulness there are moments when the three layers seem to align themselves, and it is then, in an instant, that the photograph is made.”