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I got into photography seriously in the early 1970s. It was a black and white world. There were very few color photographers. Doing color was much more difficult that black and white. In the late 1970s I moved out of photography (not completely) into child rearing. I missed Eggleston (here and here) completely. I had seen some Stephen Shore and that had caught my attention. But it was Cape Light by Joel Meyerowitz that hooked me on the possibilities of color. Large format color. When I started getting back into photography 15 years ago, it was in color. Meyerowitz's latest effort, again with large format color, was documenting the clean-up of 9/11 in Aftermath.
Cape Light:
Color Photographs
by Joel Meyerowitz
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Originally published in 1979, Cape Light became an instant classic and one of the most influential photography books published in the latter part of the 20th century. Common scenestiny figures on a beach, a porch railing against a storm-darkened sky, a blue raft against a summer cottageall are transformed by the poignant light of the Cape and the photographers subtle and luminous vision. This exquisitely printed book captures every nuance of color and light in that unique juncture of sky, sea, and land that is Cape Cod.
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Aftermath:
World Trade Center Archive
by Joel Meyerowitz
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After September 11th, 2001, the Ground Zero site in New York City was classified as a crime scene and only those directly involved in the recovery efforts were allowed inside. The press was also prohibited from the site, but with the help of the Museum of the City of New York and sympathetic city officials, award-winning photographer Joel Meyerowitz managed to obtain unlimited access. By ingenuity and sheer determination, he was the only photographer granted unimpeded right of entry into Ground Zero.
For 9 months, during the day and night, Meyerowitz photographed "the pile," as the World Trade Center came to be known, and the over 800 people a day that were working in it. Influenced by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange's work for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, he knew that if he didn't make a photographic record of the unprecedented recovery efforts, "there would be no history."
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Even though Meyerowitz is now shooting 8x10 color, he started out as a black and white 35mm street photographer and co-wrote the definitive book on street photography. Here are some Meyerowitz links:
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