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Taking My Time
Author: Joel Meyerowitz

With over 700 pages and featuring nearly 600 images, 'Taking My Time' provides an unprecedented overview and insight into the mind and work of the iconic American photographer Joel Meyerowitz. Beautifully sequenced and edited by Meyerowitz himself, and including his own personal accounts, this extensive and personal selection charts his complete... more » development as a photographer and creates an unbeatable account of a significant evolution in photography. As an exceptionally diverse and renowned photographer, Joel Meyerowitz is best known for pioneering the use of colour photography as an art form, as well as for his witty and subversive ability to capture off-guard moments with humour and affection. Beginning his photographic career on the bustling streets of New York in the 1960s, Meyerowitz translated the chaos of the city - alive with lights and cars, businessmen and street vendors - into images that are both carefully choreographed and wonderfully accidental. This energy and sense of heightened awareness pervade all of his photographs. It was as an early advocate of colour photography that Meyerowitz has had greatest influence, for he was instrumental in changing the attitude towards the use of colour from one of resistance to nearly universal acceptance. Showing the growth and development of Meyerowitz and his work, 'Taking My Time' is arranged into discrete bodies of work, split over two volumes, which explore the pivotal points of Meyerowitz's career as his evolution as an observer of human life unfolds. The reader is afforded access to his complete oeuvre, from his formative years in 1960s New York, to his travels around Europe, Cape Cod in the 1970s, St Louis and beyond. Meyerowitz's experiments in both colour and black and white highlight the studied intricacies of his art as he explores themes of human intimacy, architecture, light and space. In later years his sheer persistence and integrity made Meyerowitz the only photographer granted access to the World Trade Center site and his work serves as an official archive and indispensable tribute, not only to the lives lost, but also to the heroism, compassion and solidarity of those dedicated to the clean up process, aligning the work with Meyerowitz's continued study of great human affection. 'Taking my Time' also covers his most recent work in Japan, Tuscany and the Legacy series in the parks of New York City, as well as the never-before-published series, Elements. In 1998, Meyerowitz produced and directed his first film, POP, an intimate diary of a three-week road trip he made with his son, Sasha, and his father, Hy. It is both an open-eyed look at ageing and a meditation on the significance of memory and is featured in a unique insert in this book as a kind of 'graphic novel', along with another special insert for Meyerowitz's lesson in colour versus black and white photography. Defining images from throughout his career are also investigated with expanded, personal captions written by the photographer. The back of the book will include an index and comprehensive chronology and bibliography of Meyerowitz, including books, shows, awards and lectures.

ISBN-13: 9780714846545
ISBN-10: 0714846546
Publication Date: 6/11/2012
Pages: 720
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Publisher: Phaidon Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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