Joel Meyerowitz
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Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938, New York City) is a photographer. He is a landscape photography revivalist, influenced in part by William Eggleston, and author of the seminal book on Cape Cod, Cape Light. Meyerowitz often uses an 8x10 large format camera to produce luminous photographs of landscapes and people.
Jewish-American Meyerowitz graduated from Ohio State in 1959 with a degree in painting and medical illustration. Inspired by Robert Frank's book The Americans and by the work of Garry Winogrand, Meyerowitz took to the streets with a 35mm camera and black and white film. He also drew inspiration from Eugene Atget and from whence the seeds of his most renowned work were planted. "In the pantheon of greats there is Robert Frank and there is Atget." Meyerowitz goes on to say that "those two visions of the world captivated me early on, opened me up."
Meyerowitz is also known for creating a photographic archive of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, and was the only photographer allowed unrestricted access to ground zero immediately following the attack. A number of these images have since been made into a book, Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive, published by Phaidon Press. He also made the photograph on the cover of Taking Back Sunday's third album, Louder Now. Meyerowitz is a Guggenheim Fellow.
