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Monday, March 28, 2011

Joel Meyerowitz




Joel Meyerowitz, born in 1938 in the Bronx of New York City, is now recognized as one of todays most recognized first users of color photography. Meyerowitz attended Ohio State University and graduated with a degree in painting and medical illustration. At some point Meyerowitz stumbled out onto the streets with his first 35 mm black and white film camera and began photographing the streets he saw and the events happening within them. Soon later, Meyerowitz began capturing his images using colored film in 1962, in a time when color photography was still very looked down upon by the majority of people as a "true" art form. In the early 1970's, Meyerowitz began teaching at Cooper Union on the subject of his renowned and newly discovered color photography. Alongside starting the trend of photographing in color, Meyerowitz, as the only photographer allowed on to ground zero directly after the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center in New York, he has produced some of the most astounding and well-known photographs from that devastating event in recent American history. 
I particularly enjoyed (and, well, absolutely LOVED) his few photographs involving water. I featured two of them above and I think they are simply fantastic. All of his photographs show his innate capability and talent for composition and being able to capture the moment (especially the raw emotion captured in his 9/11 photographs). Truly a great photojournalist and artist combined, not to mention he sparked the fuse that set our photographic world spiraling into a world of color. 

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