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The Man Who Revolutionised Colour Photography
Art & PhotographyWho, What, Why
A new exhibition at London’s Beetles+Huxley gallery shines a fascinating light on the glorious early years of the pioneering American image-maker Joel Meyerowitz
TextDaisy Woodward
Who?
American image-maker Joel Meyerowitz is one of colour photography’s greatest pioneers. Alongside fellow visionaries William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, he fought and succeeded in proving the integrity and artistic value of the medium at a time when it was widely shunned in favour of its revered monochrome predecessor.
Meyerowitz was born in New York City in 1938, and studied painting and medical drawing at Ohio State University before joining a New York advertising agency as an art director. In 1962, he collaborated on a book project with the great Robert Frank, and was so moved by the photographer’s fluid approach – “it was all so physical, balletic and magical,” he recalled in an interview with Leica