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Meyerowitz
Meyerowitz (Polish: Majerowicz) is a Yiddish-language surname. It is a patronymic surname literally meaning "descendant of Meyer" (Polish phonetic transcription: ''Majer''), derived with the Polish-language patronymic suffix ''-wicz''. It can be transcribed via Russian language as Meyerovich. The surname may refer to: * Elliot Meyerowitz (born 1951), U.S. biologist * Herbert Vladimir Meyerowitz (1900–1945), British artist * Jan Meyerowitz (1913–1998), German-American composer * Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938), U.S. photographer * Rick Meyerowitz (born 1943), U.S. artist See also * 22537 Meyerowitz, asteroid * ''The Meyerowitz Stories ''The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)'' is a 2017 American comedy-drama film directed and written by Noah Baumbach. The film stars Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Marvel and Emma Thompson, and follows a group of dysfunct ...'', a 2017 film * Meyrowitz {{surname Yiddish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Meyerowitz
Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, 1938) is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art. In the early 1970s he taught photography at the Cooper Union in New York City. His work is in the collections of the International Center of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, and New York Public Library, all in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Career In 1962, inspired by seeing Robert Frank at work, Meyerowitz quit his job as an art director at an advertising agency and took to the streets of New York City with a 35 mm camera and color film. As well as Frank, Meyerowitz was inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Eugène Atget—he has said "In the pantheon of greats there is Robert Frank and there is Atget." After alternating between black and white and color, Meye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |