Point and click Oct 26, 2007
Among the first to advocate colour photos as serious art was Joel Meyerowitz, who in 1962 walked away from a career in advertising to photograph New York City's streets. Artist Sam Taylor Wood photos Amir Khan for the Tate. (BBC News -- UK)
Have camera, will travel Mar 25, 2007
Also in the show is work from Evans (Cuba), Irving Penn and Aaron Siskind (Peru), Joel Meyerowitz and Harry Callahan (France), Joel Sternfeld (Italy), and Linda Connor (India). All the pictures are from the Art Institute's permanent collection. (Boston Globe)
Swimming upstreamStreet photographer Joel Meyerowitz talks about his work Oct 31, 2006
In the second in an occasional series of interviews with noted photographers, Joel Meyerowitz explains his path to the 9/11 clear-up site. "We as human beings are faced with the rawness and hard reality of everyday life - we need beauty," explains Joel Meyerowitz ... "When a photographer works on the street, I think most of us try to be invisible to those around us - the Henri Cartier-Bresson approach, which means you can work without bruising the situation in front of you. Ballston Beach. ... (BBC News -- Americas)
On the Modern trail Oct 25, 2006
With the exception of 15 works by William Eggleston, Joel Meyerowitz and Stephen Shore, almost every picture was shot in the last 25 years. Color outnumbers black-and-white, 20 to 1. (Los Angeles Times)
Filmmaker Kevin Smith, others to talk at Macworld Expo Oct 20, 2006
Photography and the Digital Experience will be presented by Joel Meyerowitz, whose work has been featured in the Museum of Modern Art and on Nightline, CBS and MSNBC. He s also the author of 15 books, including one on the World Trade Center and the Ground Zero recovery effort. Macworld Live. (MacCentral)
Photog captures haunting images Oct 18, 2006
The lean, weathered face of Bronx native Joel Meyerowitz takes on a sort of stunned radiance when he speaks about what he witnessed at ground zero ... " Through "Aftermath" and the Berkeley exhibition, we can now vicariously share in that dark privilege. Joel Meyerowitz: Aftermath: Photographs. Tonight through Dec. 15 at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, North Gate Hall, Hearst and Euclid avenues. Reception for the artist, 5 p.m.; free public lecture by Joel Meyerowitz, 7 p.m., Sibley... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Joel Meyerowitz brought an artist's eye to archiving ground zero recovery efforts Sep 11, 2006
For Joel Meyerowitz, recording the ground zero recovery effort was a personal and public need ... PROVINCETOWN -- Like most people, Joel Meyerowitz can remember where he was when he first heard about the World Trade Center attacks. (Boston Globe -- Living)
A look through the lens: Photographer shares firsthand views after Sept. 11 Sep 11, 2006
But five years ago, the longtime professional photographer created a valuable historical document like no other. Twelve days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Meyerowitz ventured into the vast pit of debris that was once the World Trade Center to photograph the rubble and the recovery. (The Morning Star)
9/11: the aftermath Aug 27, 2006
Five years on and Joel Meyerowitz's epic images of Ground Zero remind us anew of the enormity of that day ... View the photographs ( Joel Meyerowitz) ... Joel Meyerowitz's early photographs were poetic meditations on the sky and the omens that glimmer in it - a twitching nerve of summer lightning that snakes through the blue evening air on Cape Cod; the arch that spans St Louis like a metal rainbow, opening a gateway for Western explorers; the reassuring totem pole of the Empire State Building,... (Guardian Unlimited)
Tragedy gets graphic retelling Aug 22, 2006
Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive by Joel Meyerowitz (Phaidon, $75). Photographs of the recovery effort from the archives of The Museum of the City of New York. (USA Today)
Photographer Joel Meyerowitz Records Wreckage of World Trade Center Apr 24, 2006
IF YOU GO WHAT: "Aftermath: Images from Ground Zero, Photography by Joel Meyerowitz." ... "Pop," a film by Joel Meyerowitz, screens at 2 p.m. May 7 ... A new Polk Museum of Art exhibition, "AFTERMATH: Images from Ground Zero," is a collection of pictures by photographer Joel Meyerowitz. (The Ledger)
Searching for truth amid the suffering Apr 19, 2006
They include Sebastiao Salgado, James Nachtwey, Joel Meyerowitz, Nan Goldin, Susan Meiselas, and Nicholas Nixon. This is a show that wants to make museumgoers think, and think hard. (Boston Globe)
Art | The photographers who captured and captivated Jan 22, 2006
Among its 72 prints, all but one in black-and-white, are classic images by acknowledged masters such as Robert Frank, Louis Faurer, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Lisette Model, Larry Fink and Joel Meyerowitz. They are teamed with a number of lesser-known but equally talented people, some of them from eastern Pennsylvania, such as Mark Cohen, Bruce Davidson, William Klein, Leon Levinstein, Danny Lyon, Susan Meiselas and Bill Owens. (Philly.com -- Entertainment)
Los Angeles Times to Launch 'West' Magazine Feb. 5 Jan 13, 2006
Colin Westerbeck -- Recognized as one of the nation's leading authorities on the history of photography, Westerbeck is the co-author, with Joel Meyerowitz, of "Bystander: A History of Street Photography" and is currently at work on a history of portraiture photography. Before he moved to Los Angeles, where he has taught at UCLA and USC, he was curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
