Joel Meyerowitz Quotes

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I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones and buildings and trees and air - but that's not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.

Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz

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Born: March 6, 1938 (age 86)

Bio: Joel Meyerowitz is a street photographer and portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art.

Known for:

Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive (2006)
At the Water's Edge (1996)
Bystander: A History of Street Photography (1994)

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