Joel Meyerowitz on WNYC
I caught an interview with Joel Meyerowitz on WNYC this week that is worth passing along. Meyerowitz mostly discusses his new book, but he digresses a few times to more general topics. The money quote, in response to the claim that “nature photography is riddled with cliches,”:
“I think cliches are in all of our minds. It’s so easy to point. You step into a place and you say “Look at the flower, look at the sunset…” I think serious photography takes a different kind of complexity and looking that requires some kind of relationship between things rather than objects alone…”
Personally, I did not fall in love with Legacy the way I expected to. The book includes some wonderful photographs, but all in all it feels a bit scattered to me, and many of the images don’t do much for me. I love to hear Meyerowitz talk about photography, though; he is very thoughtful and well-spoken.
November 11, 2009