Joel Meyerowitz
Joel Meyerowitz is a director and cinematographer, known for Finding Vivian Maier (2013), Everybody Street (2013) and Views on Vermeer (2009).
I wanted a picture that didn't say itself right away, that didn't give itself up. But that's always Show more
I wanted a picture that didn't say itself right away, that didn't give itself up. But that's always risky, because you work with this fear that in trying to get too much, maybe you're not getting enough. Hide
Let me tell you, a picture of dirt can be pretty damned dull. I ask myself, 'Is this insane? Is this Show more
Let me tell you, a picture of dirt can be pretty damned dull. I ask myself, 'Is this insane? Is this another dead end or a way in?' I'm still trying to find out. Hide
[on his generation of photographers] The thought for us was aways: how much could we absorb and embr Show more
[on his generation of photographers] The thought for us was aways: how much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would disappear in an instant? And, could we really make it live as art? There was almost a moral dimension. Hide
When I look back at who that kid was in the early 1960s, I was still painting, a kind of hard-edge a Show more
When I look back at who that kid was in the early 1960s, I was still painting, a kind of hard-edge abstraction. But I was really hooked on an Ashcan-School-like view of real life, of the messiness and complexity of it. Hide
Joel Meyerowitz's FILMOGRAPHY
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