TCF Ep. 500 - Joel Meyerowitz

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

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🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Joel Meyerowitz (born in New York, 1938) is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He is a two-time Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of both the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities awards, and a recipient of the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, and has published over thirty books, including the Aperture titles Legacy (2009), Cape Light (2015), and Seeing Things (2016). His most recent work is called Provincetown. The town has long been defined by outsiders. A safe haven for the queer community and a getaway for artists, it is a place defined by openness and tolerance. Throughout the late 1970s and early ’80s Joel Meyerowitz spent his summers there, roaming the seaside with an 8-by-10 camera, making exquisite, sharply observed portraits of families, couples, children, artists, and other denizens of the progressive community. A cast of characters appear and reappear from season to season against a picturesque backdrop of sea, sand, and sun. Provincetown collects one hundred portraits, most never before published, bringing viewers into an idyllic world of self-styled individualism. Photographer Links: Support Reg Campbell Education Resources: Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	On February 16th, 2006, I hit the return button on my keyboard and uploaded the very first episode of the Candid Frame, which featured a conversation with the UN photographer John Isaac.
0:22.7	Now, almost 14 years later, we release episode 500, the one you're listening to right now.
0:30.3	When the idea for the podcast first came to me, I had a general sense that it would be successful.
0:36.9	By that, I mean, I knew there would be an audience.
0:40.7	I knew that because it was the kind of show that I wanted to hear, but it didn't exist.
0:47.4	There were certainly other photography podcasts out there by people who would become friends like Jeff Kirtow, Martin Bailey, Chris Marquart,
0:56.9	and John Arnold. But the specific show that I wanted to hear just wasn't around, so I created it
1:05.1	myself. I did this, even though I barely understood what podcasting was. I also didn't know anything about
1:12.2	recording or editing audio, creating and maintaining a website, nor did I have any idea of what an
1:18.1	RSS feed was. My only real advantage was that I had access to photographers, and I had a lot of
1:26.3	questions. The show started with only a few dozen
1:29.4	listeners, but now there are thousands all over the world. And while it may not be the most
1:35.3	downloaded photography podcast out there, I'm very proud of what it's become and what it's
1:41.7	meant to so many people. I love what I do here. I'm always so excited when I have a
1:48.1	chance to sit down with someone and chat with them for an hour, because regardless of their
1:53.5	level of fame or a success, I'm just hoping for a great conversation with another human being.
2:00.4	And when that happens, it's just
2:02.6	golden. And as good as I've gotten with interviewing people and producing the show, I have to
2:08.0	thank the many listeners who provide me an audience and who by subscribing and increasing numbers
2:13.6	let me know that I'm onto something. I'm also really thankful to Marco Torres, who let
2:20.2	me his digital recorder so that I could record my first episode, and my fellow OG podcasters
2:26.8	as well, who welcomed me into this new and growing medium. I'm thankful for Martin Taylor,
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