Joel Meyerowitz, Norman Mailer - Bay / Sky - 1993

FANTASTIC BIG-FORMAT PHOTOBOOK by photography legend Joel Meyerowitz ("Aftermath") -
with foreword by Norman Mailer.

WITH ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET.

VERY FRESH AND CLEAN CONDITION.

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"His photographs are marked by an acute visual intelligence and a sensitivity to the nuance of atmosphere and colored light. ...They distill the essence of the familiar to reveal its extraordinariness, and show us the commonplace as a gateway to the mysterious."
- Susan Weiley, Creating a Sense of Place

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz, a native of the Bronx, is renowned for his color work with the 8x10 view camera. His photographs have been exhibited in the world's major galleries and museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; and the Art Forum in Tokyo. He is the author of Cape Light, St. Louis and the Arch, Wild Flowers, A Summer's Day, Redheads, and a recent children's book, The Nutcracker. He has been given many honors and awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant and two Guggenheim Fellowships, and he was named Photographer of the Year in 1981 by the Friends of Photography. Meyerowitz lives and works in New York City and in Provincetown on Cape Cod.

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Bulfinch Press. Little Brown and Company, Boston, New York, Toronto, London. 1993. First edition, first printing.

Hardback with dustjacket. 350 x 300 mm. 102 pages. 467 color photos. Photos: Joel Meyerowitz. Jacket design: Carl Zahn. Foreword by Norman Mailer. Afterword: Joel Meyerowitz. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside fresh and flawless, clean with no marks and with no foxing; pages smell a bit like smoke. Dustjacket very fresh and complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; slightest trace of use, no remarkable flaws or defects. Overall very fine condition.

Great photobook by Joel Meyerowitz with original dustjacket - in better than usual condition.

"Evoking Monet's studies of light and Stieglitz's equivalents, Meyerowitz here refines a vision begun in his earlier collection depicting Cape Cod, Cape Light. Using a balance of sea and sky where "attention is paid to everything in the frame," he has reached an ethereal formalism. Perspective and selective focus are no longer of primary concern; the horizon line becomes the only spatial marker in many images. The 47 color plates are meticulously printed from the 8 x10 view-camera negatives. An introduction by Norman Mailer, the afterword by Meyerowitz, and a list of plates are the only text. An elegant eulogy to land's end and absolutely essential for all photography collections."
- Kathy J. Anderson, Indiana Ctr. for Global Business, Indiana University -

"In Cape Light (1979), Meyerowitz made his reputation as a landscape photographer specializing in the ephemeral natural light and color associated with artistic luminism. Here he returns to the cape but has pared down his subject matter to just one long stretch of the sea meeting the sky. With his 8-by-10-inch view camera, he shot 46 different views of this vista, which are here reproduced as oversize colorplates. Misty gray morning, clear blue noonday, vivid sunset, gray-blue blanket of clouds, tide in, tide out--each image has its own form and color even though there is little but the horizon in view. Bay/Sky is a natural and more radical extension of Meyerowitz's landscape vision, and it contains some exquisite sights sure to delight both serious photography buffs and lovers of sunsets. Still, collections lacking Cape Light should add it before getting Bay/Sky, which is really a long coda to the earlier work. (A word of warning: Norman Mailer's silly introduction taints Meyerowitz's ethereal viewpoint with sexism, likening it to "a great beauty who is ready to reveal her nude secrets to but one photographer, her own private court photographer.")"
- Gretchen Garner -