Fiftieth-anniversary reissue of Joel Meyerowitz's 'Cape Light'
Aperture has released a fiftieth-anniversary edition of Joel Meyerowitz's seminal photobook 'Cape Light', featuring entirely remastered prints from new digital scans. The original 1978 publication captured Meyerowitz's shift from street photography to large-format color work on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The new edition includes a preface by the artist and is accompanied by a limited-edition print sale through July 21. Meyerowitz describes the work as a meditative departure from urban chaos, influenced by Edward Hopper's focus on sunlight.
Key facts
- Fiftieth-anniversary reissue of 'Cape Light' by Joel Meyerowitz
- Published by Aperture
- Features entirely remastered prints from new digital scans
- Original edition published in 1978
- Limited-edition prints available through July 21
- Meyerowitz shifted from 35mm street photography to 8x10 view camera
- Photographs taken on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- Meyerowitz cites Edward Hopper as influence
Entities
Artists
- Joel Meyerowitz
- Edward Hopper
- Bruce K. MacDonald
Institutions
- Aperture
- Howard Greenberg Gallery
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Deutscher Fotobuchpreis
- School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
- Harvard University
- Royal Photographic Society Journal
- New York Journal of Books
- Travel + Leisure
- Slate
Locations
- Cape Cod
- Massachusetts
- New York
- Provincetown
- Truro
- Italy
- Newton, Massachusetts
- Boston