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American, 1938
Joel Meyerowitz
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“Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame.”
The signature
Pioneer of color street photography, master of light and the energetic crowded frame.
What to study
Meyerowitz helped make color legitimate. Study his fast, deep-focus daylight street work, then his shift to large-format light studies (Cape Cod, the St. Louis Arch). Learn his generosity of vision and his feel for the quality of light at different hours.
Why for Matias
His daylight street recipe is close to your own, and Bystander is the one history of the form you should read.
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Best books
Cape Light (1978)
Quiet large-format color, a study of light.
Bystander: A History of Street Photography (1994)
Co-written; the essential history of the form.