Joel Meyerowitz

The internationally best known photographer Joel Meyerowitz (*1938, New York Cty) counts - next to Stephen Shore and William Eggleston - as one of the important representatives of the "New Color Photography" movement in the 1960s and 70s. He did start his career as a street photographer and is best known for his sensitive photographs of people and especially situations. Together with Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus he went out on the streets of New York City in the early 1960s to explore the street life and the media itself.

When he moved to Cape Cod in the mid 1970s he switched to the 8x10 camera and starts to create his iconic photographs of "Cape light". Till today his use of light and colour is still groundbreaking. In 1968 his series "From a moving car" was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, curated by John Szarkowsky.

In 2014 the first "Joel Meyerowitz Retrospective" in Germany was curated by Ralph Goertz and produced by the IKS at the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf.

The IKS PHOTO Collection contains 8 dye transfer prints (printed by Bettina Haneke, Hamburg, 2014) and numerous c-prints. Three works are special Edition prints available at the IKS, made by Joel Meyerowitz exclusively for his first retrospective show in Germany (curated and produced by Ralph Goertz).

Gold Corner, New York City, 1974. Dye transfer print (2014), 50x60cm (paper size), ep and 38x50cm (paper size), C-Print, Ed 1/50 + 3AP, signed

Madison Ave. & 60th St., New York City, 1975. Dye transfer print (2014), 50x60cm (paper size), ep

New York City, 1974. Dye transfer print (2014), 50x60cm (paper size), ep

New York City, 1975. Dye transfer print (2014), 50x60cm (paper size), ep and a signed

New York City, 1976. Dye transfer print (2014), 50x60cm (paper size), ep

New York City, 1977. Dye transfer print (2014), 50x60cm (paper size), ep

New York City, 1977. Dye transfer print (2014), 60x50cm (paper size), ep

Girl on a scooter, New York City, 1965. 40x50cm (paper size), C-print, ep
© Joel Meyerowitz / courtesy IKS PHOTO Collection

Wyoming, 1964, 38x50cm (paper size), C-print, Ed 1/50 + 3AP, signed

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 1977, 42,5x50cm (paper size), C-print, Ed 1/50 + 3AP, signed

Corn Hill Beach, Truro, Massachusetts, 1976. C-print (2014), 47,7x60,8cm (image size), ep

Roseville Cottages, Truro, Massachusetts, 1976. C-print (2014), 24x30cm (image size), ep

Young Dancer, 1978. C-print/Diasec (2014), 47,9x60,8cm/187,1x147,4cm (image size), ep