Taking My Time

With over 650 pages and featuring nearly 600 images, this limited edition book, Taking My Time, provides an unprecedented overview and insight into the mind and work of the iconic American photographer Joel Meyerowitz.

Beautifully sequenced and edited with Meyerowitz himself, and including his own personal accounts, this extensive and personal selection charts his complete development as a photographer and creates an unbeatable account of a significant evolution in photography. Beginning his photographic career on the bustling streets of New York in the 1960s, Meyerowitz translated the chaos of the city into images that are both carefully choreographed and wonderfully accidental. Showing the growth and development of Meyerowitz and his photography, Taking My Time is arranged into discrete bodies of work, split over two volumes, which explore the pivotal points of Meyerowitz’s career as his evolution as an observer of human life as it unfolds.

In later years his sheer persistence and integrity made Meyerowitz the only photographer granted access to the World Trade Center site and his work serves as an official archive and indispensable tribute, not only to the lives lost, but also to the heroism, compassion and solidarity of those dedicated to the clean up process. Taking my Time also covers his most recent work in Japan, Tuscany and the Legacy series in the parks of New York City, as well as the never-before-published series 'The Elements.' In 1998, Meyerowitz produced and directed his first film, Pop, an intimate diary of a three-week road trip he made with his son, Sasha, and his father, Hy, who suffered from Alzheimers that is also featured in the book.

Taking My Time includes a DVD of the original film, unique 'graphic novel' insert, a special lesson from Meyerowitz's lesson on color versus black and white photography, and a signed print.

Published October 1, 2012

Provence: Lasting Impressions

Provence, the jewel of southeastern France, has a rich and varied history, and vistas that have inspired artists for generations. Yet there is more to the “Land of Impressionism” than lavender fields, green rolling hills, Riviera beaches, and quaint villages. Renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz and novelist/playwright Maggie Barrett take us on their journey through four seasons in Provence, capturing the spirit of this quintessential French landscape and the people who live there as never before.

Published October 2, 2012

Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive

Published 2006

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Cape Light: Color Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz

Published 1979

Tuscany: Inside the Light

Published 2003

(Source: inside flap, Barnes & Noble Books)

Pop: A Film by the Highly Acclaimed Photographer Joel Meyerowitz

Released 1999

Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks

Hidden pockets of wilderness still exist within the urban environs of New York City, and in Legacy, Joel Meyerowitz invites us to discover them. This beautiful body of work is the result of a unique commission Meyerowitz received from the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to document the city’s parks. During the course of this project, Meyerowitz honed in on the 8,700 acres within the five boroughs of New York City that still exist in their original pristine state, as well as areas within parks that have been left to revert to wilderness. In creating this work, Meyerowitz has drawn on his own childhood memories of a New York that included “green space— open and wild, alive with rabbits, migratory birds, snakes, frogs and the occasional skunk—(that) gave me my first sense of the natural world, its temperament and its seasons, its unpredictability and its mystery.” Through this rich compendium of images of parks, shorelines and forests, Meyerowitz’s magnificent project transports the viewer into the heart of a lush wilderness, while contextualizing these nooks of nature as an inextricable part of city life today.

Published 1999