Bio
Joel Meyerowitz is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer. After studying painting, art history, and medical illustration at Ohio State University, he worked as an art director in advertising in the early 60’s.
He transformed the medium with his pioneering use of color. As an early advocate, he became instrumental in changing the attitude toward color photography from one of resistance to nearly universal acceptance.
During sixty years of making photographs, Meyerowitz has consistently turned toward greater simplification. The Elements, an ongoing body of work begun in 2007, is an examination of the four phenomena that govern our lives and a search for a new way of describing their power. His works, still lives, are a departure from everything he has done before. He uses found objects; cast offs, which he places in a makeshift, theater-like space, ‘Teatrino’ he calls it, and finds himself giving them a second life.
Joel Meyerowitz
