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Joel Meyerowitz born March 6, 1938
‘Not one of them help’
Paris en 1967: une troupe de badauds rassemblée autour d'un passant tombé à terre. “C’est une image qui raconte comment la vie urbaine peut rendre les gens cruels”, dit-il.
Ballston Beach, Truro, Massachusetts, 1977
© Joel Meyerowitz, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery
Exhibition from May 7 to June 18, 2016 at Stephen Bulger, Paris Fair Exhibitor
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Stephen Bulger Gallery is pleased to present “Survey”, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of work by American photographer Joel Meyerowitz.
Meyerowitz, born in 1938 in New York City, 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 transformed the genre with his pioneering use of colour. As an early advocate of colour photography in the mid 1960’s, Meyerowitz was instrumental in changing the attitude toward the use of colour photography from one of resistance to nearly universal acceptance.
This exhibition displays a selection of key black and white images from early works that captured the attention of influential curators. Also included are early colour works from Europe in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, which illustrate his mastery of composing with colour as well as form.
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Words of wisdom from Joel Meyerowitz
“What I think is so extraordinary about the photograph is that we have a piece of paper with this image adhered to it, etched on it, which interposes itself into the plane of time that we are actually in at that moment. Even if it comes from as far back as 150 years ago, or as recently as yesterday, or a minute before as a Polaroid color photograph, suddenly you bring it into your experience. You look at it, and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that looks like the world. That connection, that collision, that interfacing, is one of the most astonishing things we can experience.”
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