1. Joel Meyerowitz was born on March 6,1938 and is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer.
11 Facts About Joel Meyerowitz
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Joel Meyerowitz 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.
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Joel Meyerowitz's work is in the collections of the International Center of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, and New York Public Library, all in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
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In 1962, 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 35 mm camera and color film.
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Joel Meyerowitz appears extensively in the 2006 BBC Four documentary series The Genius of Photography and in the 2013 documentary film Finding Vivian Maier.
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Joel Meyerowitz is the author of many books including Cape Light, considered a classic work of color photography.
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Joel Meyerowitz photographed the aftermath of the September 11,2001 attack on the World Trade Center, and was the only photographer allowed unrestricted access to its Ground Zero immediately following the attack.
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On January 18,2017 Joel Meyerowitz was honored for his lifelong work with a place at the Leica Hall of Fame and was described as a "magician using colour" and being able to "both capture and framing the decisive moment".
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Joel Meyerowitz was born in the Bronx, to working class Jewish immigrant parents from Hungary and Russia.
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Joel Meyerowitz studied art, art history, and medical illustration at Ohio State University, graduating in 1959.
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Joel Meyerowitz is married to English artist and novelist Maggie Barrett.