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United States Joel Meyerowitz is an American photographer, recognized for his contributions to street, portrait, and landscape photography, and an early proponent of color photography.
Joel Meyerowitz took a cue from Renaissance art for a new Fall/Winter 2021 campaign for the fashion brand. The photographer, known for his street portraits of 60s New York City, integrated his appreciation for color into the campaign.
Daniel Baer's collaboration with Joel Meyerowitz. The Swiss designer involved Joel Meyerowitz for photography in a project related to the NY wilderness.
Rolex partnered with The Talks to share stories of notable achievements, featuring Joel Meyerowitz in an interview about his photography career.
Meyerowitz is involved with 'Sequels,' a new approach to developing photographic stories using blockchain technologies, aiming to socialize photographic archives.
Joel Meyerowitz contributed to Leica Camera's stories, discussing a photograph from 1963 and the idea that "unexpected relationships create a new meaning."
Roche Bobois hosted a monographic exhibition of Joel Meyerowitz's work in Paris, in collaboration with Polka Galerie, which specializes in documentary photography.
Joel Meyerowitz was born in the Bronx, New York, on March 6, 1938. He pursued his education at Ohio State University, where he studied art, art history, and medical illustration, graduating in 1959. Initially, Meyerowitz worked as an art director for an advertising agency. A pivotal moment in his career occurred in 1962 when, inspired by observing Robert Frank at work, he left his advertising role to pursue photography. He began documenting the streets of New York City using a 35mm camera and color film, a medium that was not widely accepted as serious art at the time. His early work also drew inspiration from photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Eugène Atget.
Meyerowitz’s commitment to color photography solidified in 1972, a period before its broader institutional acceptance. Concurrently, he embraced large-format photography, frequently utilizing an 8×10 camera, to capture detailed images of places and people. Between 1970 and 1980, he transitioned his focus, becoming equally proficient in both black-and-white and color fine-art photography. His methodological approach to photography allowed him to evoke strong moods in his work, from the keen observations of everyday life in his early street images to the meticulous clarity of his later color photographs.
His career also includes significant documentation projects, notably his extensive photographic record of the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center. He was the only photographer granted unrestricted access to Ground Zero following the event, culminating in the publication of “Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive.” Meyerowitz’s work is held in numerous prestigious collections, including the International Center of Photography, the Museum of Modern Art, and the New York Public Library.
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