Joel Meyerowitz is an American photographer born in 1938 who began photographing in 1962. He was influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank and is inspired by everyday people, gestures, and interactions. Meyerowitz's work has appeared in over 120 exhibitions worldwide and he works exclusively in color. He is known for his artistic color photographs that observe the effects of light and shadow, often photographing the same location from the same spot. After 9/11, Meyerowitz photographed the destruction and recovery at Ground Zero, creating a collection of 8,000 images.
2. BACKGROUND
Name: Joel Meyerowitz
Born: New York, 1938
Began Photographing: 1962
Influences: Henri Cartier-Bresson , Robert Frank
Inspiration: People, gestures, and interactions that occurred everyday
Work: His work has appeared in over 120 exhibitions in museums and galleries
around the world. He has had one-man exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in
New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo
Works exclusively in color
Author of 11 books
3. Reviews
Meyerowitz, Joel
American, 1938-
American art photographer
“Since the late 1970s Meyerowitz has been known for his artistic color
photographs that characteristically observe the effects of light and
shadow, often on a place photographed from exactly the same spot.”
• Text from The Photography Encyclopedia
4. “You look at it [a photograph] and all around
the real world is humming, buzzing and
moving, and yet in this little frame there is
stillness that looks like the world. That
connection, that collision, that interfacing, is
one of the most astonishing things we can
experience.”
5.
6. “I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture
something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in
it--stones and buildings and trees and air--but that's not what
fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy,
discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to
get in there.”
9. Park Panorama
My Critique: The thing I like most about Joel Meyerowitzs’ work is his ability to find and shoot out
Of the ordinary scenes that make you think and have to look twice at the print. I like this picture
Because it incorporates both his styles, simple and city scene. On the left the lighthouse
Represents his simple shooting style and on the right the bridge represents what he is most
Known for shooting, street shots.
12. quot;Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no
photographs, then there is no history.
I'm going to get in there.
I'm going to make these pictures.
We need a record.”
• After the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade
Center in New York, Meyerowitz began to
create pictures displaying the destruction and
recovery of ground zero and the immediate
neighborhood. It consists of 8,000 images.
16. Bibliography
• Photography, stander: The History of Street. quot;Joel Meyerowitz: A Slice of Life
Unfolding.quot; Double Exposure. 11 Mar. 2009
<http://www.doubleexposure.com/CoverStory_Meyerowitz.shtml>.
• quot;Hipshots » Blog Archive » Joel Meyerowitz interview.quot; Hipshots . 11 Mar. 2009
<http://www.hipshots.co.uk/?p=52>.
• “Joel Meyerowitz Photography, LLC.quot; Joel Meyerowitz Photography, LLC. 11 Mar.
2009 <http://www.joelmeyerowitz.com
• quot; Photography Quotations by Joel Meyerowitz.quot; Quotes about Photography. 11
Mar. 2009
<http://www.photoquotes.com/ShowQuotes.aspx?id=200&name=Meyerowitz,Joe
l>.
• quot;Hub's Visionary Photographers.quot; Hub's Visionary Photographers. 12 Mar. 2009
<http://www.visionaryphotographers.com>.
• quot;Invincible Armor.quot; Invincible Armor. 12 Mar. 2009
<http://invinciblearmor.blogspot.com
