Photographers
Joel Meyerowitz: Towards Colour 1962-1978 at Beetles Huxley Gallery
PhotocriticEtcNew York City, 1965 © Joel Meyerowitz
A new exhibition of work by Joel Meyerowitz, including rarely seen black and white photographs from his early career, will open at Beetles+Huxley on 22 May 2017. ’Joel Meyerowitz: Towards Colour 1962 - 1978’, will highlight the photographer’s seminal street photography – tracing his gradual move from black and white and colour film to a complete focus on colour photography, over the course of over two decades.
The subject of over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide and two-time Guggenheim Fellow, Meyerowitz is one of the most highly-regarded photographers of the second half of the twentieth century. Alongside his contemporaries, William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, Meyerowitz drove the positioning of colour photography from the margins to the mainstream.
New York City, 1973 © Joel Meyerowitz
The exhibition will feature bodies of work made by Meyerowitz between 1963 and 1978, from his very early days shooting in black and white on the streets of New York alongside Garry Winogrand and Tony Ray-Jones, to the year he published his first book, Cape Light.
The exhibition will include works made in Florida and New Mexico as well as iconic street scenes captured in New York. The exhibition will also include a selection of photographs taken during Meyerowitz’ travels across Europe in 1966, including images of France, Spain and Greece.
Joel Meyerowitz: Towards Colour 1962 - 1978 runs at Beetles & Huxley, 3-5 Swallow Street, London, W1B 4DE from 22 May to 24 June 2017. Monday to Saturday, 10.00 to 17.30. Admission free.
