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Joel Meyerowitz

  • Malaga, 1967 by Joel Meyerowitz.

    Olé! Joel Meyerowitz’s vintage European road trip – in pictures

    Taking a trip across the continent – and snapping people in a speeding car at 100km an hour – taught the legendary photographer how to really see things
  • Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1983

    Meeting their match: photos that talk to each other – in pictures

    Joel Meyerowitz’s latest exhibition presents his work in pairs, revealing how two images have extraordinary parallels in light, colour and composition
  • West 46th Street, New York City,  1976

    ‘What have I seen?’: Joel Meyerowitz’s life in photography – in pictures

    A new book explores the US photographer’s 60-year career, from Franco’s Spain to New York mannequins. He talks us through some classic images …
  • Neon heights … Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1976

    From dusk till dusk: tricks of the twilight – in pictures

    Joel Meyerowitz’s acclaimed photo series captures diving boards and motels in Florida and Cape Cod at that mysterious moment when the sun goes down
  • New York City, Easter Sunday 1964

    Blooming marvellous: Joel Meyerowitz’s entrancing wild flowers – in pictures

    From hats at a Paris horse race to a foggy funeral in Venice, the great street photographer’s images of gardens and flower-strewn scenes were first published in the 1983 book Wild Flowers. Meyerowitz talks about the key shots featured in a new, expanded edition
  • Clockwise from top left: Liz Johnson Artur, Ellen Von Unwerth, Nadav Kander, Rineke Dijkstra and Joel Meyerowitz.

    How to take great pictures: six acclaimed photographers share their secrets

    Trust in chance, have fun, know where to stand… as the celebrated street photographer Joel Meyerowitz publishes a handbook, he and five other masters offer bite-size lessons
  • The teller won’t see you now … New York City, 1963.

    Freckles, milkshakes and 9/11: on the prowl with Joel Meyerowitz

  • ‘Not one of them helps’ … Paris, France, 1967, from the new book Where I Find Myself.

    Photography legend Joel Meyerowitz: phones killed the sexiness of the street

  • New York City, 1963 

Joel Meyerowitz: Towards Colour at Beetles + Huxley, 23rd May - 24th June

    The man who made colour cool – in pictures

    A new exhibition of Joel Meyerowitz’s groundbreaking street photography traces his fascinating evolution from black and white (‘back there’) to colour (‘obvious’)
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    Joel Meyerowitz: 'brilliant mistakes ... amazing accidents'

    The photographer talks to Sean O'Hagan about his new book, which celebrates his 50 years of finding the 'wow' factor in everyday places

  • Two men with dogs

    Joel Meyerowitz: Taking My Time – in pictures

    A selection of images from the first career retrospective on the work of the renowned American photographer

  • Joel Meyerowitz Format festival

    Sean O'Hagan on photography
    Right Here, Right Now: photography snatched off the streets

    Sean O'Hagan: This year's Format festival puts street photography – and Derby – on the map and has attracted two masters of the genre, who both made their names on the streets of New York
  • Joel Meyerowitz exhibition at FORMAT 2011

    Joel Meyerowitz at the Format International Photography Festival - in pictures

    A selection of photographs by Joel Meyerowitz will be on show at the Quad Art Gallery, Derby from the 4 March – 3 April. The Guardian picture desk is also hosting a day at the festival on 12 March

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    My best shot
    Joel Meyerowitz's best shot

    'In 2050, people will look at this and know what 1970s New York was like'

  • 9/11: the aftermath

    Five years on and Joel Meyerowitz's epic images of Ground Zero remind us anew of the enormity of that day. The veteran photographer spent nine months at the site, shooting mangled steel, mountains of rubble, heroic human effort ... and, finally, an empty pit. As Peter Conrad writes, the images in his new book show destruction on a biblical scale.

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