Joel Meyerowitz: Select Works, 1962-2019

Huxley-Parlour is delighted to announce Select Works, 1962-2019, an exhibition of photographs by world-renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz. Marking the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, twenty seven works are brought together which span the breadth of Meyerowitz’ six decade long career, examining the artist’s changing approach to photography and the shifts in his photographic voice.

-seven works are brought together which span the breadth of Meyerowitz’s six-decade-
Meyerowitz’ photographs from the 1960s depicted the freneticism and the inertia of New York’s streets. Visual matter is often multi-layered within the photographer’s vision - the boy backlit by a ray of sunlight is a visual precursor to the translucent wedding dress in a shop window, the life-size doll riding pillion on a motorcycle and the suited man lingering by a parked Cadillac. The photographer’s alertness to phenomena, particularly those which he describes as ‘nearly invisible’, generates both a wit and a sensitivity to the world as it reveals itself to him. What Meyerowitz searched for in his explorations of the street were fleeting moments of harmony within the chaos, the same moments of unlikely clarity revealed in the music of Meyerowitz’ New York contemporaries Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, and Miles Davis.

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