perhaps from the rubble of ground zero, will rise a Banyan tree, that will give shade to us all. Photography and Culture: Vol. Five years on and Joel Meyerowitz's epic images of Ground Zero remind us anew of the enormity of that day. (2017).
Traces of the Virtual: Aesthetics, Affect, and the Event in Joel Meyerowitz’s Photography of Ground Zero. Although he has always seen himself as a street photographer in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank (he is the co-author of the standard work on the genre, Bystander: A History of Street Photography, 1994) he transformed the mode with his pioneering use of color. talked … Within a few days of the 9/11 attacks in New York, Meyerowitz began to create an archive of the destruction and recovery in and around Ground Zero. See artblog posts here and here.)
I felt there had to be a historical record.” He became the only private photographer allowed to shoot the destruction and recovery at the site and after nine months produced an archive of 8,000 images of the aftermath. 10, No.
Meyerowitz never expected to find a Bible while documenting the wreckage from 9/11, but even more interesting was the passage the Bible was open to. Lawrence Weschler in conversation with photographer Joel Meyerowitz in the living room of the latter’s New York City home, 7 April 2003. A Bible found at Ground Zero had a surprise for photographer Joel Meyerowitz. The man who photographed Ground Zero (Photo: Joel Meyerowitz) You don’t have to be Jewish to be a great photographer but it helps, according to one of the greatest. I remember the words of an American whom Meyerowitz’s own nation seems to have forgotten: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those Joel Meyerowitz en dix images, de la rue new-yorkaise à Ground Zero. 1938) was born in New York City and began taking photographs in 1962.
Joel Meyerowitz is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. Joel Meyerowitz, an acclaimed photographer, was given access to Ground Zero on Sept. 23, 2001, and has documented the wrenching cleanup and recovery efforts there. Born in New York in 1938, he began photographing in 1962, becoming a “street photographer” in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank.
Remembers Meyerowitz, “I argued and eventually, with the help of some well-placed friends, got the right to photograph ground zero.
He embarked on a Ground Zero archival project, using a combination of large plated and 35mm formats, for The Museum of the City of New York. As a native of New York, Meyerowitz had been especially affected by the 9/11 attacks, and was the only photographer granted unrestricted access to Ground Zero. The veteran photographer spent nine months at … Steve and I and our friend Ann went to hear Joel Meyerowitz speak at the Free Library Tuesday night.