Joel Meyerowitz is one of the pioneers of color photography, as well as an essential reference figure for street photography, large-format photography, and portraits. 'The Pleasure of Seeing. Conversations with Joel Meyerowitz on sixty years in the life of photography' is his first biography, the book offers a look behind the scenes of the life and career of one of America’s photographic living legends. In conversation with historian and photographer Lorenzo Braca, Meyerowitz speaks vividly about his beginnings, studying art history, meeting Robert Frank, photographing on the streets of New York City with Tony Ray-Jones and Garry Winogrand, traveling extensively across America and Europe, learning from John Szarkowski, director of photography at MoMA, working on numerous exhibitions and publications, photographing at Ground Zero in 2001 and 2002, and about the most recent still lifes and self-portraits projects. The book contains over one hundred pictures, including Joel’s most iconic photographs as well as new and previously unpublished material. This comprehensive visual biography testifies to the author’s continuing evolution throughout the six decades of his career and discusses his work in relation to his personal life, to the history of photography, and to the incessant transformation of the medium. Meyerowitz reveals anecdotes, personal memories, and the story behind many of his famous photographs.

Nato nel 1938 a New York, Joel Meyerowitz è considerato, insieme a William Eggleston e Stephen Shore, uno dei più rappresentativi esponenti della New Color Photography degli anni ‘60 e ‘70. Dopo un’esperienza come art director, negli anni Sessanta iniziò a dedicarsi alla fotografia ispirato soprattutto da Robert Frank. Cominciò quindi a collaborare con diversi importanti autori come Garry Winogrand, Tony Ray-Jones, Lee Friedlander, Tod Papageorge e Diane Arbus. La macchina fotografica di piccolo formato (35 mm) permise a Meyerowitz di attraversare New York e comportarsi come un vero e proprio street photographer, registrando piccoli eventi casuali, dettagli minimi e rivelatori, volti e paesaggi urbani. Grazie alle collaborazioni con William Eggleston e Stephen Shore, Meyerowitz si avvicinò poi al grande formato fino ad arrivare all’importante lavoro che realizzò dopo gli attentati dell’11 settembre 2001. Meyerowitz fu l’unico autorizzato a fotografare da vicino Ground Zero subito dopo gli attentati: molte di queste fotografie sono poi state raccolte nel volume Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive. Fotografo sempre in evoluzione, ultimamente ispirato dalle opere e dalle vicende di Paul Cézanne, realizza una serie di fotografie agli oggetti dell’artista francese. Le fotografie di Meyerowitz sono presenti in importanti collezioni pubbliche e private tra cui il Museum of Modern Art di New York, il Museum of Fine Art di Boston e The Art Institute di Chicago. Tra le numerose esposizioni personali realizzate a partire dal 1966 si ricordano On the street, Color photographs, 1963-1973 (Chicago Art Institute,1994-95), e Aftermath: inside the forbidden city (mostra itinerante dal 2003). Joel Meyerowitz è rappresentato dalla galleria Howard Greenberg di New York.

Lorenzo Braca (nato nel 1977) è uno storico e fotografo italiano. Attualmente lavora per l'Università Cattolica di Milano. La sua ricerca artistica come fotografo si focalizza sull'ambiente urbano e la sua evoluzione. Ha tenuto la sua prima mostra personale nel 2021.

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