​Joel Meyerowitz 

He was born in the Bronx, in 1938, into a neighborhood that offered daily lessons in the divine comedy and tragedies of human behavior. Meyerowitz is a “street photographer” in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, although he works exclusively in color. As an early advocate of color film he became instrumental in changing the attitude toward color photography from one of resistance to nearly universal acceptance. His first book “Cape Light” is considered a classic work of color photography and has sold over 100,000 copies. He has published twenty-five other books including “Bystander: The History of Street Photography,” and in 2013 Phaidon published his 2 volume retrospective book; “Taking My Time.”