Signed; Joel Meyerowitz - Redheads - 2022

Signed copy of Redheads—a seminal book in Joel Meyerowitz’s career.

Joel Meyerowitz (New York, 1938) is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. Celebrated as a pioneer of color photography, standing alongside names such as William Eggleston and Stephen Shore in the New Color Photography movement of the 1960s and 1970s, he is a two-time Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities awards, and a recipient of The Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal.

This extraordinary collection of portraits celebrates the uniqueness and allure of red-haired, freckled individuals. The first shot in the Redheads series was taken in 1978 in Cape Cod, using an 8x10-inch large-format camera. Since then, his fascination with the distinctive characteristics of these subjects has never waned. Despite differences in gender, age, nationality, and religion, redheads seem united by a secret bond that brings them together as one family.


It was in 1978, during my first summer of making portraits while using an 8x10 inch large format camera, that I found myself drawn to photographing redheads.

I have often been asked, æwhy redheads,Æ and IÆve often felt it was because in summer redheads seem to bloom in the sun more gloriously than the rest of us. But it also might have been my living far out on the tip of Cape Cod, surrounded by all the blue light of sea and sky, which made me pay more attention to the flamboyant qualities of redheads. Their hair and the exotic markings of their skin in sunlight became even rosier and more astonishing in that blue atmosphere.