Conversation with Joel Meyerowitz

Storytelling, the use of color and of black and white, personal and social issues; these are just a few of the many themes that the American photographer Joel Meyerowitz discusses with the photography critic Alessia Tagliaventi. This book results in a combination of text and images which constitutes both a complex examination of Joel Meyerowitz's work and a manual on the reading of photography itself. Joel Meyerowitz is an award-winning photographer born in New York. He is a "street photographer" and an early advocate of color photography. His first book, Cape Light , is considered a classic work of color photography and has sold more than 150,000 copies during its thirty-year life. Alessia Tagliaventi is a scholar of photographic history and editor of Contrasto. She has curated several photography books and catalogues. She is author of critical essays for numerous publications, among those My brother's Documentary Photographers and Human Rights , Master Photographers , Shadows of War , and Photoshow . She also teaches courses in the history of photography.