Joel Meyerowitz, talks of his professional experiences, the new HP Designjet Z2100 and Z3100 Photo Printer series, and how he prepared and selected 180 prints from about one thousand photos for his retrospective exhibition at the Jeu De Paume gallery in Paris.
Duration : 0:6:42
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Jibba jabba, …
Jibba jabba, pictures, lots of money wasted. Another reason why owning a camera and having photoshop doesn’t make you a photographer.
I think …
I think scrutinizing minutia with a computer program and ascosiated regalia yields a final print that is both a photograph and a painting. I prefer a straight print, myself, and do fine with it. But, so have a century + of pros, so I can’t take the credit for realizing that.
another …
another pervert digging the streets stealing people’s faces and emotions
Darkroom is great …
Darkroom is great but times are changing, digital as vertually distroyed the livelyhoods of many photographers so why not use some of what everybody else is, personally I shoot 5×4 and very high res scan the neg/tranny because I can easily remove that hair/dust that found its way in but I dont enhance digitally so I am still a purist in that sense
I love Mr. …
I love Mr. Meyerowitz. He came into his own in the 70′s when he began to explore the play between natural and artificial light.
You can not like his work but you can’t call him a sell and/or pretend to be better than him. I don’t see HP calling you to do a commercial.
darkroom is for the …
darkroom is for the truelly skilled, who dont need photoshop.
You have just …
You have just proved how much of an idiot you are my friend. lol
The darkroom is a compromise for him, that is what saying! He knows the score and that he has more artistic control over the image in PS, more can be brought out of the film. (I personally don’t like his images, more a Crewdson fan)
Sellout + mediocre …
Sellout + mediocre photographs ( post 70s)
Hey Knucklehead, …
Hey Knucklehead, STFU.
There is no way you …
There is no way you can say you have more control over a print in the darkroom than you do in PS…………dime baaaaaaar!
Darkrrom is a …
Darkrrom is a compromise for JM cuz he is not very good at it.
joel meyerowitz …
joel meyerowitz never fails to inspire me.
I love to watch …
I love to watch artists at work.
hands down some of …
hands down some of the most inspirational words about photography
612s, 617s, 4×5, …
612s, 617s, 4×5, 8×10… Vision is what drives one, not the tool. A tool is a tool.
As for anyone being able “to make great prints [???] in NYC with a Leica and a 24 mm it must be as true as anyone being able to make great photographs in NYC with an 8×10. ??!!
The best of us pick …
The best of us pick the tool they need for a specific project or adapt to the tool in order for their vision to make most of it. There is not one tool superior to another one in the abstract. Specific genres of photography require specific tools thence people have evolved through various genres, or going back and forth between them, depending on their inspiration, use various appropriate tools be it Leicas M, SLRs, Hasselblads, M7 (Mamiyas),…
2-his work has its …
2-his work has its own quality, style, different from works by Winogrand, Friedlander or Pappageorge… in other word it is not just uphazard snap-shots.
3-it takes a whole lot of vison, preparedness, intuition and overall anticipation to shoot in that style. I would never venture in underestimating the work, experience and vision that any good work requires. The rest is just tools.
Obviously …
Obviously Cortelyou44 you have not spend enough time either with Meyerowitz’s BW or with his color street photography. How much have you seen?
If you have seen enough then you may have noticed:
1-there is no chance most of the work could have been done with a large format camera. He was at the time if not reinventing at least reassessing the decisive moment and giving it, with others of course, its American identity.
Obviously, you have …
Obviously, you have no idea of what is composition or street photography…. Do you know the work of Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, etc? Easy? You have to be kidding!
shane6003PQ: It’s …
shane6003PQ: It’s nice to actually have a normal discussion, that’s very rare on Youtube. Usually it’s always f you this and f you that as soon as people disagree.
And I get your point too by the way.
Regards
/Fredrik
You’re absolutely …
You’re absolutely right Fredrik. I also do not like some work by other photographers… but when I wrote this, I was directing it to Elferoz who called Meyerowitz photography “mediocre at best” which is in my opinion totally wrong.
Sorry if It seemed like it was directed at everyone… I guess I should have made my post directly toward elferoz.
shane6003PQ: No …
shane6003PQ: No matter who you are or what experience you have in a certain field you are always entitled to an opinion. It should, however, be delivered with respect.
Not liking some ones work certainly does not equal claiming to be their superior, why would it? Ex: I’ve always disliked Y.J.Malmsteen but would never claim to be his superior at guitar playing, I’m mediocre at best. Still I am entitled to dislike his work.
Agreed though that some people could be more humble in their opinions.
I’ve been a …
I’ve been a photographer for 50 years. Google: Jeremy Taylor.
To all those nay sayers on this board, I suggest you read Eckhart Tolle and came to understand that almost everything is a gift. Joel has added something to photography, but you may have to have a more generous spirit to see it.
This video helps me to make the transition from the dark to the light of what’s happening NOW.
For everyone that …
For everyone that doesn’t like joel’s work, well that’s nice to know… but saying his work isn’t good, is pretty much saying you can do better. When any of you have a name so well known any gallery in the world will know, tell me and I’ll say you were right.
I would love to be his assistant since he has tons of experience, more than probably everyone who will watch this video. He is exactly what photography is about…. If you like something enough, why not take a picture of it?
Nice video. …
Nice video. Unfortunately, it’s basically just an advertisement for a printer and ink set.