25 September – 2 November 2008 / Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

Exhibition curated by: Christoforos Marinos
Production: Jeu de Paume / Joel Meyerowitz Studio in New York
Courtesy: Edwynn Houk Gallery

A pioneer of street photography, Joel Meyerowitz (born in 1938, New York) approaches the urban setting as a scenery in the making. From the 1960’s onwards, his anthropocentric lens captures, stoically or spontaneously, the city crowd in all its aspects: random events, snapshots of leisure places such as parks and beaches, but also peaceful empty landscapes are some of the images which constitute Meyerowitz’s lonely journey into the unpredictable mythic American cityscape.