Joel Meyerowitz is one of the pioneers of color photography as well as an essential reference
figure for street photography large-format photography and portraits. The Pleasure of Seeing
is his first biography the book offers a look behind the scenes of the life and career of one
of Americäs photographic living legends. In conversation with historian and photographer
Lorenzo Braca Meyerowitz speaks vividly about his beginnings studying art history meeting
Robert Frank photographing on the streets of New York City with Tony Ray-Jones and Garry
Winogrand traveling extensively across America and Europe learning from John Szarkowski
director of photography at MoMA working on numerous exhibitions and publications
photographing at Ground Zero in 2001 and 2002 and about the most recent still lifes and
self-portraits projects. The book contains over one hundred pictures including Joel¿s most
iconic photographs as well as new and previously unpublished material. This comprehensive
visual biography testifies to the author¿s continuing evolution throughout the six decades of
his career and discusses his work in relation to his personal life to the history of
photography and to the incessant transformation of the medium. Meyerowitz reveals anecdotes
personal memories and the story behind many of his famous photographs.
