Joel Meyerowitz (b. 1938) is a New York-born photographer who began with street photography in the 1960s, working in both black and white and colour.,He was an early advocate of colour photography.His work later turned to landscape, portraits and still life.,
Meyerowitz began taking photographs in 1962 after studying painting and medical illustration at Ohio State University.,He sees himself as a street photographer in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank.In 1994 he co-authored Bystander: A History of Street Photography.His 1976 series Cape Light records the coast, small towns and inhabitants of Cape Cod with a large-format camera.He has said that on Cape Cod light became his subject.
Later books include Wild Flowers (1983) on nature and artifice on city streets, Redheads (1991) of portraits and Tuscany: Inside the Light (2003) of landscape. After the September 11 attacks in 2001, he was the only photographer given unimpeded access to Ground Zero. An exhibition of those images has travelled to more than 200 cities in 60 countries.While living in Tuscany in the 2010s, he spent time at Giorgio Morandi's studio in Bologna and photographed the painter's still-life objects. The photographs were published in Morandi's Objects in 2016.
In 2022 Meyerowitz showed twilight photographs of seaside pools in the online exhibition “Between the Dog and the Wolf”.The Web3 platform Fellowship also brought new work by him to the blockchain.In 2023 he presented Sequels at Paris Photo, in an exhibition by Louise Alexander Gallery/AFP in partnership with Fellowship.The project uses blockchain technologies to merge six decades of his work into a decade-long visual narrative.,His photographs are in the collections of MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.In 2026 he received the Sony World Photography Award for Outstanding Contribution to Photography.,
