Bronx–born American photographer Joel Meyerowitz began his career as an advertising art director, but taught himself photography after an encounter with Robert Frank, and became a freelance photographer in 1963. He is known especially for his documentary photographs of New York and New Yorkers and for his pioneering work in color photography. His work has appeared in more than 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries and he has published sixteen books. In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, Meyerowitz began the World Trade Center Archive, with some 8,000 images created in partnership with the Museum of the City of New York.
…I remember a woman
who sat on the pot where the apples cooked in the cold
basement, her face black from smoke. And here, near this brick
building with a red tile roof, is one of our family, Mausha
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The Christian parable of the prodigal son, from Luke 15:11–12, was a favorite subject of artists from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. A son squanders his inheritance and is reduced to…
The Lord to the prophet Ezekiel (may he rest in peace): you, son of man, show the House to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the…