Aftermath by Joel Meyerowitz

Aftermath by Joel Meyerowitz

"An important tribute to the courage and determination exhibited by New Yorkers in the weeks and months following 9/11"—Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City

"Aftermath is a testament to the heroism and compassion that were so much a part of the recovery efforts at ground zero."—Joe Daniels, President, National September 11 Memorial & Museum

"Meyerowitz has created an archive that is both a work of history and of art."—Booklist

"Magnificent... It is for our children and our grandchildren—for the historical record—that Meyerowitz zealously labored over many months to capture on film the aftermath."—John Updike, The New York Review of Books

"Mesmerizing."—The New York Times

Born in 1938 in New York City, Meyerowitz went to Ohio to study painting and medical drawing at the State University but moved back to New York to work in advertising as an art director-designer. He began to take photographs at this time and left his job to concentrate on photography as a career. Shooting film in black and white, he travelled around the United States for three months after which he was offered a Guggenheim Scholarship to take pictures on the theme of 'leisure time'.

However Meyerowitz has had his greatest influence as an early advocate of colour photography. He was instrumental in changing the attitude toward the use of colour from one of resistance to nearly universal acceptance. His subject matter altered from incidents on city streets shot with a small 35mm camera to the large format field photograph. He has been awarded the title Photographer of the Year by the Friends of Photography, San Francisco. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and has been exhibited and published worldwide.