3 ottobre - 2 novembre 2008, Thessaloniki (Grecia)
Opening at the Contemporary Art Centre of Thessaloniki, Warehouse B1 (Port of Thessaloniki) - Thessaloniki, the exhibition “Joel Meyerowitz - Out of the ordinary. 1970-1980″, curated by Christoforos Marinos. Production: Jeu de Paume / Joel Meyerowitz Studio in New York | To read a Meyerowitz image is to see the elements in his photographs come together to form multiple narratives, delightful little stories within the greater context of the larger world. Photo District News magazine | A pioneer of street photography, Joel Meyerowitz (born in 1938, New York) approaches the urban setting as a scenery in the making. From 1960’s onwards, his anthropocentric lens captures, stoically or spontaneously, the city crowd in all its aspects: random events, snapshots of leisure places such as parks and beaches, but also peaceful empty landscapes are some of the images which constitute Meyerowitz’s lonely journey into the unpredictable mythic American cityscape. Joel Meyerowitz’s work marks a significant course in American photography. A pioneer of street photography and one of the first to establish color photography as an art form, he approaches the -largely urban- landscape as an ever-evolving scenery. In the footsteps of Robert Frank, Garry Winograd and Henri-Cartier Bresson, his practice is based on the concept that photography is here to render an ambiguous ending to what surrounds us, by capturing moments which remain suspended in time. Simultaneously, everything looks like he is adhering to Winograd’s famous creed: «I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed». The traveling retrospective exhibition Out of the Ordinary, which was first presented at Jeu de Paume, Paris, in 2006, includes 150 colored pictures covering the period from 1970 to 1980. The starting point of the exhibition could be a three month journey Meyerowitz made in different cities, in 1970, in order to study how Americans spend their leisure time.[…] Info: tel +30 2310546683 fax +30 2310593271 e-mail: info@cact.gr; www.cact.gr