Archive for October, 2009
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 at Cooper Union[citation needed] 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 with Stephen Shore and William Eggleston became the first group of young artists to use color exclusively.[citation needed] 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 seminal[citation needed] book, Cape Light. Meyerowitz often uses an 8×10 large format camera to produce luminous photographs of place and people.
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