Taking My Time

Taking My Time
ISBN: 9780714865027
Publication Date: 1 October 2012

Two volume limited edition of 1,500 copies presented in a slipcase with a signed print Paris, France, 1967 and a DVD of Meyerowitz's award-winning film Pop

With over 650 pages and featuring nearly 600 images, 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. As an exceptionally diverse and renowned practitioner of his craft, Joel Meyerowitz is best known for pioneering the use of colour photography as an art form, as well as for his witty and subversive ability to capture off-guard moments with humour and affection.

Beginning his photographic career on the bustling streets of New York in the 1960s, Meyerowitz translated the chaos of the city - alive with lights and cars, businessmen and street vendors - into images that are both carefully choreographed and wonderfully accidental. This energy and sense of heightened awareness pervade all of his photographs. It was as an early advocate of colour photography that Meyerowitz has had greatest influence, for he was instrumental in changing the attitude towards the use of colour from one of resistance to nearly universal acceptance. One of photography's most articulate practitioners, Meyerowitz's career has taken a highly diverse trajectory, to create a unique, intimate body of work, which explores his own life and artistic journey.

Showing the growth and development of Meyerowitz and his photography, Taking My Time is arranged into discrete bodies of work, split ove...