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First, Focus Magazine has continue to improve, which at one time, I thought was going to be a totally impossible feat. So listen to me closely while I eat a portion of fried crow.
Next, there is an interesting extended interview with Joel Meyerowitz, although I can not provide a link to an on-line article, I can give you a link to Joel’s website.
And to publicly admit, I was captivated by his book Cape Light in the mid 1970’s, enough so that even though I was an avid Black & White photographer, there was something about Joel’s large format (8×10) color photographs that really connected with me. I just had to wait until the softcover book came out in 1978 before I could afford to buy it.
I also realized that I had not pulled my copy out of my stacks for many years, thus besides reading the Focus article, I found myself gazing at my copy of Cape Light again. Nice. And I can now recognize some subtles in Joel’s use of composition that must affected me. His work has created a more lasting effect than I had realized.
Joel also has some interesting comments in the Focus article about his willingness to try new things and concepts and it is no big deal to fail (but he already has his major grants, awards and gallery representation!), how important it is to keep your old work in perspective as a building block to where you are today and I think he was one of those who were tagged with the “medative” use of the large format camera, along with Wynn Bullock, Minor White and Paul Copinegro.
Best regards, Doug
