Joel Meyerowitz, St. Louis and the Arch Vintage Photograph Joel Meyerowitz Architectural Photo 1981-1982

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St. Louis and the Arch Vintage Photograph
St. Louis: title, signature, dated 1977, copyright 1982, and edition 1/10 to verso.
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St. Louis: title, signature, dated 1977, copyright 1982, and edition 1/10 to verso.
View down Walnut St. of St. Louis' city hall building.
Images: 15 x 19 in. (16 X 20), frames: 22 1/2 x 28 1/2 in

Meyerowitz first drew acclaim for his remarkable ability to capture subtle qualities of light with the 1978 publication of Cape Light, which went on to become a color photography classic. Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, 1938) is a street photographer, and portrait and landscape photographer. He 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 1970s he taught the first color course at the Cooper Union in New York City where many of today's renowned color photographers studied with him.

Inspired by seeing Robert Frank at work, Meyerowitz quit his job as an art director at an advertising agency and took to the streets of New York City with a 35mm camera and black-and-white film, alongside Garry Winogrand, Tony Ray-Jones, Lee Friedlander, Tod Papageorge and Diane Arbus. He drew inspiration from Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and Eugène Atget.
After alternating between black-and-white and color, Meyerowitz "permanently adopted color" in 1972,well before John Szarkowski's promotion in 1976 of color photography in an exhibition of work by the then little-known William Eggleston. Meyerowitz also switched at this time to large format, often using an 8×10 camera to produce photographs of places and people.
Meyerowitz is the author of 16 books including Cape Light, considered a classic work of color photography.
Meyerowitz photographed the aftermath of the September 9/11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, and was the only photographer allowed unrestricted access to its "ground zero".
He was included in the book Annie On Camera: Nine Photographers William Eggleston, Mitch Epstein, Joel Meyerowitz, Jane O'neal, Stephen Shore, Neal Slavin, Eric Staller, Robert Walker, Garry Winogrand.
Awards:
Guggenheim Fellow
National Endowment for the Arts award
Deutscher Fotobuchpreis (the German photobook prize) for Aftermath
The Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship See less