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Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, 1938) is a street photographer and portrait and landscape photographer. He 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. In the early 1970s he taught the first color course at the Cooper Union in New York City where many of today's renowned color photographers studied with him. ==Career== 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 black-and-white film. Garry Winogrand,〔 Tony Ray-Jones, Lee Friedlander, Tod Papageorge and Diane Arbus were photographing there at the same time. Meyerowitz was inspired Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and Eugène Atget — he has said "In the pantheon of greats there is Robert Frank and there is Atget." After alternating between black-and-white and color, Meyerowitz "permanently adopted color" in 1972,〔Gilles Mora, ''The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies'' (New York: Abrams, 2007)〕 well before John Szarkowski's promotion in 1976 of color photography in an exhibition of work by the then little-known William Eggleston.〔 Meyerowitz also switched at this time to large format,〔 often using an 8×10 camera to produce photographs of places and people. Meyerowitz appears extensively in the 2006 BBC Four documentary series ''The Genius of Photography''〔 and in the 2013 documentary film ''Finding Vivian Maier''. He is the author of 16 books including ''Cape Light'', considered a classic work of color photography.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate = 2011-12-01 )〕 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.〔Neil Harris (Joel Meyerowitz: Ground Zero, Then and Now ), ''Time'',September 10, 2011〕 This resulted in his book ''Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive'' (2006), which Parr and Badger include the 2011 edition of in the third volume of their photobook history. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joel Meyerowitz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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