Signed; Joel Meyerowitz - Cape Light: Color Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz - 1978

Original edition of 1978, first printing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / New York Graphic Society, Boston.
This volume includes a signed inscription from Joel Meyerowitz.

Cape Light is unanimously regarded as one of the most important and influential photography books published in the second half of the 20th century.
Its publication in 1978 literally changed the status of color photography in the art world.

- Revolutionary context:
In 1978, black-and-white photography was still regarded as the only serious medium for artistic photography. Color was associated with commercial or amateur photography. Joel Meyerowitz, with Cape Light, demonstrated that color could be the very subject of artistic photography.

- The genesis of the work:
Between 1976 and 1978, Meyerowitz settled in Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod (Massachusetts), with an 8x10-inch large-format camera. He photographs the distinctive light of this Atlantic peninsula: the evening light on the verandas, approaching storm skies, groceries at dusk, views from the bedroom windows.

- Exceptional technical quality:
Meyerowitz uses an 8x10 inch (20 x 25 cm) large-format camera, enabling a richness of detail and a color and light reproduction quality unparalleled. This technique, unusual for street and documentary photography, endows the images with remarkable density and physical presence.

- Cover: Hardcover, without dust jacket
Number of pages: 112 (unpaginated).
- Dimensions: 27 x 23.6 cm

Condition: Very good for this 1978 edition, interior free of annotations and creased pages. The cover shows some wear at the corners, slightly rubbed. A small stain at the upper corner of the spine and on the back cover.
See the photos that are part of the presentation.

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