Between Grey and Dusk

Joel Meyerowitz is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 galleries and museums around the world. After a chance meeting with the icon Robert Frank, the New York native began photographing street scenes in 1962. He has become a true explorer and master of color photography. The exhibit at Howard Greenberg Gallery is showing work from two different yet strangely similar collections. We feel a worship of the times, the things and the places from his lens. We can smell the air, be absorbed with the colors and feel the light.

Joe Meyerowitz photographed Cape Cod over many summers and was mesmerized by the unique effect light has on color there. Many artists feel the same way about this unique light. He shot with an 8×10 view camera which totally invigorated his creativity with capturing time, color and light together. We see an entire series devoted to twilight and the magnificent time when shadows disappear and things begin to look unreal and certainly the familiar becomes unfamiliar. Of this work, he said, ” My whole way of seeing was both challenged and refreshed. I found that time became a greater element in my work.” The images from Truro and Provincetown are amazing in their simplicity yet so powerful in their execution and devotion to that particular moment.

Also at Howard Greenberg Gallery are Joel Meyerowitz photographs from Cezanne and Morandi’s studios with a dedication to the objects that were there. He was granted special permission to shoot there. Meyerowitz’s fascination is played out in a series that is devoted to the objects and the light and color again play a tremendous role. He photographed the objects and the walls and even the floors in shooting their studios. He added objects he found in Italian flea markets and shot them in his studio in Tuscany. There is a beautiful resonance with all of the places and objects throughout the exhibit. He can take us time-traveling anytime.