Joel Meyerowitz: Provincetown Contributor(s): Meyerowitz, Joel (Photographer), Meyerowitz, Joel (Preface by), Meyerowitz, Joel (Text by (Art, Photo Books)) |
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ISBN: 1597114677 ISBN-13: 9781597114677 Publisher: Aperture OUR PRICE: $67.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Photography | Individual Photographers - Monographs - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Portraits & Selfies - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) |
Dewey: 779.209 |
LCCN: 2019904139 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 10.9" W x 12.4" (3.30 lbs) 160 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "A precious document of a lost world and time." --Guy Trebay, New York Times "If extraterrestrials asked me to convey the nature of human beings, I'd show them Joel Meyerowitz's dazzling array of portraits. I can think of no better testament to the joy, the beauty, the sheer force of our lives here on Earth." --Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours The beach town of Provincetown, Massachusetts, has long been defined by outsiders. A safe haven for the queer community and a getaway for artists, it is a place defined by openness and tolerance. Throughout the late 1970s and early '80s, Joel Meyerowitz spent his summers there, roaming the seaside with an 8-by-10 camera, making exquisite, sharply observed portraits of families, couples, children, artists, and other denizens of the progressive community. A cast of characters appear and reappear from season to season against a picturesque backdrop of sea, sand, and sun. Provincetown collects one hundred portraits, most never before published, bringing viewers into an idyllic world of self-styled individualism. |
Contributor Bio(s): Meyerowitz, Joel: - Joel Meyerowitz is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He is a two-time Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of both National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities awards, and a recipient of the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, and has published over thirty books. He lives in Italy. |