Joel Meyerowitz

All Works (53)Biography

Highlights

Huxley-Parlour-Joel-Meyerowitz-install-4

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Joel Meyerowitz: Dialogues. Installation View

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Joel Meyerowitz. Lynette Eating a Plum (1981)

HUXLEY-PARLOUR exhibition Between the Dog and the Wolf - Joel Meyerowitz (2022)

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Joel Meyerowitz: Between the Dog and the Wolf. Installation View

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Joel Meyerowitz

Miami Beach, Florida

1978

Archival pigment print, printed later

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Joel Meyerowitz

Camel Coats, New York City

1975

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Fallen Man, Paris

1967

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Gold Column, Porch, Provincetown

1977

Archival pigment print

Bay/Sky, Late Afternoon/No Horizon, Late Summer, 1985 neg. 3574

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Joel Meyerowitz

Bay/Sky, Provincetown, Massachusetts

1985

Archival pigment print, printed later

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Joel Meyerowitz

Dune Grass House, Truro, Massachusetts

1984

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Longnook Beach, Truro, Massachusetts

1983

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Ariel, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

1984

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Flag, Provincetown, Massachusetts

1983

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Lynette Eating a Plum

1981

Archival pigment print, printed later

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Joel Meyerowitz

Peaches, Provincetown

1983

Archival pigment print, printed later

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Joel Meyerowitz

Provincetown, Massachusetts

1976

Archival pigment print, printed later

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Joel Meyerowitz

Cold Storage Beach, Truro

1976

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Doorway to the Sea

1982

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Red Interior, Provincetown

1977

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Roseville Cottages, Truro

1976

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Ballston Beach, Truro

1976

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Porch, Provincetown

1977

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Porch, Provincetown

1977

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Cosmos, Provincetown

1976

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Provincetown

1977

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Skylight, Provincetown

1977

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Florida

1978

Archival pigment print, printed later

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Joel Meyerowitz

Florida

1978

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Florida

1970

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Florida

1978

Archival pigment print, printed later

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Joel Meyerowitz

Florida

1978

Archival pigment print, printed later

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Joel Meyerowitz

Florida

1978

Archival pigment print, printed later

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Joel Meyerowitz

Los Angeles, California

1976

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Dusk, New Jersey

1978

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

The Woodcutter’s Art, Tuscany, Italy

2002

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Early Morning Mist, Rising, Tuscany, Italy

2002

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

Longnook Beach, Truro, Massachusetts

1989

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

New York City

1978

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

New York

1968

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

New York City

1963

Archival pigment print

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Joel Meyerowitz

New York City

1965

Silver gelatin print

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Joel Meyerowitz

New York City

1965

Silver gelatin print

B. United States 1938

Biography

Joel Meyerowitz began his career in the 1960s, photographing the streets of New York. He began using black and white film, before transitioning to using colour film to record fleeting and surreal moments. He has stated that colour ‘describes more things…when I say description, I don’t mean mere fact and the cold accounting of things in the frame. I really mean the sensation I get from things, their surface and colour, my memory of them in other conditions as well as their connotative qualities. Colour plays itself out along a richer band of feelings, more wavelengths, more radiance, more sensation.”

Meyerowitz formulated what he calls field photographs. He moved towards a more non-hierarchical image in which everything in the image, including the colour, played an equal, vital role. His 1976 series, Cape Light is one of the most celebrated bodies of photographic work of the twentieth century. Taken using a large-format camera, Meyerowitz’ images of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, document the coast, small towns and their inhabitants with a great sensitivity to the scale and colour of the landscape. The expansive skies and crystalline colours produced a new kind of photography – slow, meditative and experiential. Meyerowitz is also known for photographing the aftermath of the September 11 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Centre, being one of the only photographers allowed access to the site. His most recent work has turned to still life and led him to photograph the studios of Cézanne and Giorgio Morandi.

Joel Meyerowitz was born in 1938 in New York. He studied art and medical illustration at Ohio State University. Meyerowitz has published twenty-two books, including a two volume retrospective publication, Taking My Time (2013) and is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities awards and a two-time Guggenheim Fellow. His work is held in collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.