Joel Meyerowitz
The Richard Benson Lecture in the Reproduced Image
Richard Ovenden and award-winning photographer Joel Meyerowitz will discuss his photographic books and the different problems they pose in all their individual ways; and how does one arrive at an ending?
The Richard Benson Memorial Lecture in the Reproduced Image is an endowed lecture in honour of the scholar, photographer, and master printer Richard ‘Chip’ Benson. The lecture focuses on the ideas, theory and practice of reproducing images, especially, but not confined to, consideration of the photographic reproduction of images. The first lecture was given by Jock Reynolds and Thomas Palmer, and the second by Gerhard Steidl.
The discussion will be followed by a drinks reception in Blackwell Hall.
Speakers
Joel Meyerowitz is a street photographer in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, but he has also transformed the medium with his pioneering use of colour. His first book, Cape Light (1978), is considered a classic work of colour photography and has sold over 200,000 copies. His restless energy and open approach to subject matter has also produced such varied work as: A Question of Color (Tate Modern 2024); Photographs From a Moving Car (a one-person show at MoMA in 1968), his Guggenheim Fellowship project, Still Going: America During Vietnam, his work with the large format, 8x10 view camera which resulted in such books as: Cape Light (1978), St. Louis and The Arch (1980), A Summer’s Day (1985), Redheads (1991), Bay/Sky (1993), Aftermath: The World Trade Center Archive (2006), and others. He has published 56 books.
Meyerowitz is a recipient of both the NEA and NEH awards. His work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Tate Modern, The Picasso Museum, Malaga, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago, Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum, and others worldwide. Meyerowitz lives and works in London and New York.
Richard Ovenden is Bodley’s Librarian and the Helen Hamlyn Director of the University of Oxford Libraries, and is responsible for their strategic oversight. He holds these posts alongside his role as Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums (GLAM), University of Oxford. He has published widely on the history of collecting, the history of photography and on professional concerns of the library, archive, and information world.
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre and Blackwell Hall at the Weston Library
28th October
5pm–6.45pm
FREE (Booking required)