Joel Meyerowitz — Out of the Ordinary 1970-1980

Published on occasion of an exhibition at the Nederlands Fotomuseum this book shows a variety of Meyerowitz color work and includes an essay by Frits Gierstberg. Joel Meyerowitz was born in New York City and began taking photographs in 1962. Although he has always seen himself as a street photographer in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank (he is the co-author of the standard work on the genre, Bystander: A History of Street Photography, 1994) he transformed the mode with his pioneering use of color. As an early advocate of color photography (mid-60’s), Meyerowitz was instrumental in changing the attitude toward the use of color photography from one of resistance to nearly universal acceptance.