Joel Meyerowitz:Between the Dog and the Wolf

This July, Huxley-Parlour is pleased to present thirteen large-scale photographs by American photographer, Joel Meyerowitz. Taking his acclaimed photoseries – Between The Dog and the Wolf – as a point of departure, the exhibition radically extends his historic body of work with the addition of photographs from contemporaneous series. All the works are shot on the same large format camera, and causally linked by their unique exploration of colour and evening summer light. Spanning two decades, Joel Meyerowitz’ pictures bespeak his position as a pioneer of modern, colour photography.

Originally published as a photobook, Between the Dog and the Wolf captures serene swimming pools girdled by expansive seas and endless, twilight horizons in Cape Cod throughout the 70s and 80s. The contrast between pools and the ocean is not only an aesthetic one, but a philosophical contrast too: the title comes from the French phrase ‘entre chien et loup’, alluding to oncoming twilight. Meyerowitz notes, “It seemed to me that the French liken the twilight to the notion of the tame and the savage, the known and the unknown, where that special moment of the fading of the light offers us an entrance into the place where our senses might fail us slightly, making us vulnerable to the vagaries of our imagination.”

Please note, the opening event, on Tues 19 July, has been cancelled due to extreme temperatures in London.