Joel meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz. Camel Coats, New York City, 1975. #joelmeyerowitz "Towards Colour 1962-1978" at Beetles+Huxley in London. #beetleshuxley #streetphotography #americanphotography #gallery#americangreatness

For nearly 60 years, Joel Meyerowitz has been drawn to the flower in its many splendored forms. Here he looks back at its role in his storied career.

Joel Meyerowitz: Dialogues at Huxley-Parlour gallery, London, running until March 2. Joel Meyerowitz: A Question of Color, is out now from Thames & Hudson.

Captured in the 1970s and '80s, during those slightly mysterious moments around dusk, this series of images by award-winning photographer Joel Meyerowitz, Between the Dog and the Wolf, was inspired...

"I thought that to make photographs, you froze everybody before the fact, but Robert never froze them except in the camera. So that was a revelation." Excerpt from "Still Going", from Bystander: A History of Street Photography (2001) by Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz CW: The name we are

Joel Meyerowitz. Boy with a Bluefish. 1980. Chromogenic print, printed 1981. 18 11/16 × 23 9/16" (47.5 × 59.8 cm). Gift of the artist. 316.1982. © 2025 Joel Meyerowitz. Photography

Although the technology to produce color prints was widely available as early as the 1940s, for many years black and white remained the only accepted medium for fine art photography. Serious photographers held color in low esteem, seeing it as the language of the family snapshot, the tourist postcard or the consumer advertisement. Intrigued and inspired to develop a new vocabulary, Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz, and William Eggleston began to actively explore the medium of color photography…

"If we accept the idea that a photograph basically just describes things, then a color photograph describes more things" - Joel Meyerowitz

A selection of images from the first career retrospective on the work of the renowned American photographer