It's November 6th, 2006, special episode of The Candid Frame.

When I started this show back in February, I wanted really to have an opportunity to have dialogue with a lot of photographers that I,

whose work I really liked and admired. And among those photographers is my guest today,

which is Joel Meyerwitz. And it really is a blessing for me to have the chance to talk to him

because his work is, is work that I've long admired and have always tried to emulate

in a lot of my own work. Joel Meyerwitz is known primarily as a street photographer and he's

often compared to a lot of his contemporaries including Robert Frank and Gary Winnegrant.

But Joel, beginning in the early 60s, his work was primarily in color rather than in black

and white, and he was one of the key photographers along with William Eggleston, who in the

70s showed that color could be just as an effective tool in documentary and in in street photography

as as was a black and white photography up to that point and if you haven't had a chance to

check out his work I certainly recommend that you do if you can pick up some of his older

monographs some of which may be out of print, but some of them are still available.

And I really recommend that you take a look at this work because it's really, really phenomenal work.

And, but the bulk of the conversation today is going to be about his most recent work, which has just been published

in a book called Aftermath.

And Aftermath is a documentary of documentary photographs produced at Ground Zero in New York City.

And Joel was the only photographer to have authorization to be on site during the immediate days after 9-11 and the

recovery effort and then the the attempts to clear out the area in preparation for rebuilding.

And his story and his images are going to be particularly important and not just for,

you know, the obvious reasons of historical significance. I think in terms of photographers,

from a photographer's expected, you really get to recognize the importance of photography.

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