Joel Meyerowitz

American, 1938

Born in 1938, Joel Meyerowitz is celebrated as a pioneer of color photography. He began his career photographing the streets of New York, using black and white film before transitioning to color to capture fleeting and surreal moments. Meyerowitz formulated what he calls field photographs, moving towards a more non-hierarchical image in which every element, including the color, plays an equal, vital role.

Meyerowitz is a two-time Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of both National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities awards, and a recipient of The Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal. Joel has published 53 books and is represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York, Polka Galerie in Paris, and Huxley-Parlour Gallery in London. The artist currently lives in New York and London.