- Joel Meyerowitz
Joel Meyerowitz (born in 1938,the Bronx
New York City ) is a street photographer who began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art. In the early 70's he taught the first color course atCooper Union Fact|date=October 2007 where many of today's renowned color photographers studied with him. He made a significant change to large format color photography in 1976, and along withStephen Shore andWilliam Eggleston became the first group of young artists to use color exclusively.Fact|date=October 2007 Their work, seen and published in America and Europe, influenced the next generation's, particularly the young German artists', turn toward using color in photography. He is the author of 16 books including the seminalFact|date=October 2007 book, "Cape Light". Meyerowitz often uses an 8x10large format camera to produce luminous photographs of place and people.Meyerowitz graduated from
Ohio State University in 1959 with a degree in painting andmedical illustration . Inspired byRobert Frank 's book "The Americans" and by the work ofGarry Winogrand , Meyerowitz took to the streets with a 35mm camera and black and white film. He also drew inspiration fromEugene Atget , whence the seeds of his most renowned work were planted. "In the pantheon of greats there is Robert Frank and there is Atget." Meyerowitz goes on to say that "those two visions of the world captivated me early on, opened me up."Fact|date=October 2007 Or|date=October 2007Meyerowitz has published a photographic archive of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, and was the only photographer allowed unrestricted access to
ground zero immediately following the attack.cite web
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accessdate = 2007-10-16 ] A number of these images have since been made into a book, "", published byPhaidon Press . [cite web
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accessdate = 2007-10-16 ]Joel Meyerowitz had extensive appearance in 2006
BBC -4 documentaryThe Genius Of Photography [http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/] .His photograph, "
New York City, 1963 ," is used by permission inTaking Back Sunday 's third album,Louder Now .Awards
Meyerowitz is a
Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of both theNational Endowment for the Arts and theNational Endowment for the Humanities awards.References
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