Cape Light, Joel Meyerowitz’s series of serene and contemplative color photographs taken on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, quickly became one of the most influential and popular photography books in the latter part of the twentieth century, breaking new ground both for color photography and for the medium’s acceptance into the art world.
Joel Meyerowitz (born in New York, 1938) is an award-winning photographer whose workhas appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He is a two-time Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of both National Endowment for the Artsand National Endowment for the Humanities awards, and a recipient of the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis. He has published over fifteen books and lives in Italy. – See more at: http://aperture.org/shop/cape-light-joel-meyerowitz-books#sthash.wUrf1ng1.dpuf