Joel Meyerowitz: Cezanne's Objects: Pitcher

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Published in a limited edition of 25 copies, this elegant boxed volume presents Joel Meyerowitz' masterful color photographs of Cezanne's Atelier and the objects, and includes a photograph signed and numbered by the artist. Some years ago, Meyerowitz visited Cezanne's studio in Provence, and experienced a flash of understanding about his art. Cezanne had painted the walls a dark gray, mixing the color himself. Consequently, every object in the studio seemed to be absorbed into the gray of the background. Meyerowitz saw how Cezanne thus flattened perspective. He decided to take each of the objects in the studio and view them against the gray wall. He then arranged them in rows, and made a photographic grid of five rows with five objects on each row. These photographs are at once marvelous photographic still lifes and an incredible revelation of Cezanne's methods.

Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) is one of the most influential modern photographers and representatives of the New Color Photography of the 1960s and '70s. His work has appeared in more than 350 exhibitions around the world and is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and many other museums worldwide.