Joel Meyerowitz

photographer

Joel Meyerowitz is an award-winning American photographer known as a pioneer of color photography. Born in New York City in 1938, he began his photographic career in the 1960s as a street photographer. His work has been exhibited in over 350 museums and galleries worldwide. He is a two-time Guggenheim Fellow and has received numerous prestigious honors, including awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as The Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal. Meyerowitz lives and works in New York and London.[1,2]

Themes

  • color photography
  • street photography
  • landscapes
  • portraits
  • still-life

Works by Joel Meyerowitz

  • A Summer's Day 1985 · Times Books/Random House · book · English ISBN 0812911822 Meyerowitz's fourth book of color work.
  • Bay/Sky book
  • St. Louis and the Arch 1981 · New York Graphic Society · book

Exhibitions

  • Selected Works Various museums and galleries, Worldwide group

Awards

  • Guggenheim Fellowship John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
  • National Endowment for the Arts Award National Endowment for the Arts
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Award National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Centenary Medal The Royal Photographic Society

References

  1. Bio link
  2. A Summer's Day. 1985 link