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Joel MeyerowitzWW-2001-135177
2001·Chromogenic print·Image: 24.2 × 16.2 cm (9 9/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Paper: 25.4 × 20.2 cm (10 × 8 in.)

<p>In late summer 2001 Joel Meyerowitz was preparing an exhibition in Provincetown, Massachusetts, that featured his photographs of lower Manhattan taken from the window of his studio on 19th Street. Five days after the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Meyerowitz returned to the city, determined to make a historical record of the tragedy. Securing the cooperation of firefighters, police officers, and construction workers at Ground Zero, he became the only photographer with unimpeded access, and spent nine months documenting the wreckage and recovery efforts.</p>

Catalogue

Year
2001
Dimensions
Image: 24.2 × 16.2 cm (9 9/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Paper: 25.4 × 20.2 cm (10 × 8 in.)

Artist

Joel Meyerowitz
Joel Meyerowitz

Photography

Joel Meyerowitz is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art. In the early 1970s he taught photography at the Cooper Union in New York City.

New York, NY, USA

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Year
2001
Dimensions
Image: 24.2 × 16.2 cm (9 9/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Paper: 25.4 × 20.2 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Watts ID
WW-2001-135177

Source

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aic
Status
verified

Artist

Joel Meyerowitz

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Photography

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