{"title":"Joel Meyerowitz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoel Meyerowitz\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling exploration of visual storytelling through his photography books. Readers can expect intimate and vivid portrayals of everyday moments, capturing human expressions and colour with remarkable clarity and depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom street scenes to portraits such as in \u003cem\u003eRedheads\u003c\/em\u003e, Meyerowitz’s work invites a contemplative look at life and light, blending artistry with candid reality. 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But it also might have been my living far out on the tip of Cape Cod, surrounded by all the blue light of sea and sky, which made me pay more attention to the flamboyant qualities of redheads. Their hair and the exotic markings of their skin in sunlight became even rosier and more astonishing in that blue atmosphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRedheads, like film itself, are transformed by sunlight. It seems natural to me now that I would have paid attention to this new phenomenon as it appeared within the larger subject of the Cape itself. After making more than 50 portraits that first month, in which at least 30 were of redheads, I understood that this was an impulse to be taken seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI ran an ad in the local paper, the \u003cem\u003eProvincetown Advocate\u003c\/em\u003e: \"REMARKABLE PEOPLE! If you are a redhead or know someone who is, I'd like to make your portrait, call....\" They began coming to my deck, bringing with them their courage and their shyness, their curiosity and their dreams, and they shared their stories of what it was like to be a redhead. They spoke of the painful remembrances of childhood, the violations of privacy and name-calling—\"Hey, red,\" \"freckle face,\" \"carrot head.\" They also shared with me their sense of personal victory at having overcome this early, unwanted celebrity, and how like giants or dwarfs or athletes they had finally grown into their specialness and by surviving had been ennobled by it. You could say that they had been baptized by their own fire, and that their shared experience had formed a \"blood knot\" among them. I had begun making portraits with the intention of photographing ordinary people. But redheads are both ordinary and special.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir slender slice of the genetic pie accounts for only 2 or 3 percent of the world's population. As different as redheads are in terms of nationality and religion, they often give the appearance of a strong familial connection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMy way of making portraits is not by getting down on my hands and knees, nor climbing high on a ladder, nor getting into bed with a celebrity, but simply standing eye to eye with anyone who has found their way to me, young or old. I need only one or two sheets of film and the patience to see it through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition of \u003cem\u003eRedheads\u003c\/em\u003e will have a number of new and previously unseen portraits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362743599340,"sku":"9788862087667","price":110.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9300703485343.jpg?v=1772899559"},{"product_id":"joel-meyerowitz-by-joel-meyerowitz-9781786275806","title":"Joel Meyerowitz","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eMasters of Photography\u003c\/em\u003e series is a new approach to photography how-to. Each volume is dedicated to the work of one key photographer who, through a series of bite-sized lessons and ideas, tells you everything you always wanted to know about their approach to taking photographs. From their influences, ideas and experiences, to tech tips and best shots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe series begins with \u003cem\u003eJoel Meyerowitz\u003c\/em\u003e, who will teach you, among other essentials: how to use a camera to reclaim the streets as your own, why you need to watch the world always with a sense of possibility, how to set your subjects at ease, and the importance of being playful and of finding a lens that suits your personality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Joel Meyerowitz's retrospective, \u003cem\u003eWhere I Find Myself\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"So let me say it plainly: Joel Meyerowitz's \u003cem\u003eWhere I Find Myself\u003c\/em\u003e is a compelling, wonderful, deeply pleasing collection of an essential photographer's work. [it] is a necessary book. Necessary because of its size and scope. Necessary because of the way it holds the aesthetic of the artist in the air.\" – LensCulture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"More than just a career retrospective, Meyerowitz's book is a personal celebration of photography as an art form.\" – Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"After over half a century of making pictures, Meyerowitz is noted as one of the most influential photographers living today. A new book titled \u003cem\u003eJoel Meyerowitz's Where I Find Myself\u003c\/em\u003e brings together his tremendous archive to create a portrait of not only America during the 20th and early 21st centuries, but also a prolific artist with a lifetime of groundbreaking work.\" – BuzzFeed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eJoel Meyerowitz's Where I Find Myself\u003c\/em\u003e is a pièce de résistance, a masterful feat of publishing that sets the bar as high as it can possibly reach. The photographer's magnum opus opens in the present day, with his most recent body of work and unfolds in reverse chronological order, leading us through a spellbinding life in photography that is simply unparalleled.\" – Feature Shoot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"After 40 years Meyerowitz continues to entice and enthrall with a consistency of vision that reshapes subject matter in his own light. If you are a fan of Meyerowitz's work and especially of \u003cem\u003eCape Light\u003c\/em\u003e, this lifetime retrospective will be a treasured addition.\" – New York Journal of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424430833900,"sku":"9781786275806","price":56.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781786275806.jpg?v=1774768475"},{"product_id":"bystander-by-joel-meyerowitz-9781786270665","title":"Bystander","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, the authors explore and discuss the development of one of the most interesting and dynamic of photographic genres. 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