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Joel Meyerowitz is one of the earliest advocates and successful practitioners of color photography, setting a precedent for contemporary artists who readily acknowledge his influence. He is among a select few who have been instrumental in changing an attitude of resistance regarding the making and collecting of color photography to one of nearly universal acceptance.
Starting out as a street photographer, Meyerowitz transitioned to an 8x10 in. view camera in the late 1970s, embracing a slow, deliberate approach in making each image. His photographs reveal languid American vistas, imbued with an evocative radiance. Through his projects, he explores the aesthetic of landscape, and the phenomena of patterns within nature--a meeting place of the banal and the mystical.
Meyerowitz is a two time Guggenheim fellow, recipient of NEA and NEH awards, and the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis. His work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world, and is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among many others. A retrospective monograph will be published by Phaidon Press in 2009.
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