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March 18, 2003
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Mike Andrei
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Daemen Conference &
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Joel Meyerowitz, Photographer, “World Trade Center Archive,” to Present
“Inside the Forbidden City: Eight Months Photographing Ground Zero,”
as Keynote Address for 2003 Academic Festival, April 14 at Daemen College
Photographic Exhibit Will be Seen in More Than 200 Cities, 60 Countries
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Joel Meyerowitz, an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 150 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world, and the only photographer granted unimpeded access to Ground Zero after September 13, 2001, will bring his lecture and photo exhibit, “Inside the Forbidden City: Eight Months Photographing Ground Zero,” to Daemen College Monday, April 14, 2003. Meyerowitz’s presentation will be the keynote address for the 2003 Daemen College Academic Festival, and will begin at 7:30 p.m., in Daemen’s Wick Center. His presentation will be free and open to the public.
Meyerowitz’s appearance at Daemen is sponsored by Robert Warren and the Estate of Rupert Warren, and the Daemen College Office of the President. The Daemen College Academic Festival centers on student presentations to the community and campus guests, providing a showcase for academic achievement and excellence through student and faculty presentations, exhibitions, and performances. These presentations may reflect work done in a single discipline or be interdisciplinary in nature, and range in form from posters, papers, panel discussions, exhibits, or videos, to artistic, musical, or theatrical performances. Within a few days of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Meyerowitz began to create a photographic archive of the destruction and recovery at Ground Zero and the immediate neighborhood. He has donated his work – more than 7,000 images – to the Museum of the City of New York, where it is part of the permanent collection of the museum, and available for research, exhibition, and publication. The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. State Department asked the Museum of the City of New York and Meyerowitz to create a special exhibition of images from the archive to send around the world over the next few years. The purpose of the exhibition is to relate the scale of the destruction of the 9/11 attacks, and the physical and human dimensions of the recovery effort. Meyerowitz takes a meditative stance toward the work and the workers there at Ground Zero, systematically documenting the painful work of rescue, recovery, demolition, and excavation. His color photos in the exhibit are represented in a 30 inch x 40 inch format. Joel Meyerowitz was born in New York in 1938. He began photographing in 1962. He was an early advocate of color photography in the mid-60's, and was instrumental in changing the attitude toward the use of color photography from one of initial resistance, to nearly universal acceptance. His first book, Cape Light, is considered a classic work of color phtography, and has sold more than 100,000 copies during its 20-year life. He is the author of 13 other books, including Bystander: The History of Street Photography. In 1998, he produced and directed his first film, POP, an intimate diary of a three-week road trip he made with his son, Sasha, and his father, Hy. The odyssey has as its central character an unpredictable, street-wise and witty 87-year old with a failing memory. It is both an open-eyed look at aging, and a meditation on the significance of memory. Meyerowitz is a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of both National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities awards. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. An archive of works by Meyerowitz can be viewed at http://www.joelmeyerowitz.com . |
