Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm Santa Fego, so welcome to the show. Today we are joined by legendary photographer Joel Meyerowitz.

For 60 plus years, Joel has been documenting life itself on the streets of New York, in a moving car across Europe, the sand dunes of Cape Cod, he has a way of not just capturing moments in time, but creating them. As a pioneer of color photography, Meyerowitz's work has appeared

in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He's a two-time Guggenheim fellow, a recipient of the National Endowment

for the Arts, and the author of more than 40 books featuring his photography. His latest is called The Pleasure of Seeing, a visual biography that charts

his evolution through six decades of work, which is basically what we tried to do in this conversation with Joel.

I sat with him back in the spring of 2021, about a year into the pandemic,

when the prospect of living the kind of life captured in these photos seemed almost unimaginable.

But even back then, Joel was undaunted, continuing to make work. At age 85, he has the irrepressible spirit of a 25-year-old.

He's still curious, excitable, and it shows in each photograph we discuss in this conversation.

If you'd like to follow along and actually see the photos being described,

we've put together a virtual exhibit on our website at talk easy pod.com. Once there you'll see each

image with the corresponding time code that should help guide you along through our

conversation again that's that should help guide you along through our conversation.

Again, that's Talk EasyPOD.com.

We've also included that link for you to click

in the description of this episode.

When I was re-listening to this episode,

hearing Joel talk about the joys of doing this work,

pouring over each and every photograph together. It made me not only want to get outside and take photos

myself, it also made me appreciate just how singular and special the process of art making is. And it's that same process,

although in a different medium that writers and actors are currently fighting to

protect in this strike. It's a process that's being

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