--- title: Joel Meyerowitz: Taking His Time as a Master Street Photographer description: In honor of the 50th anniversary of when he first took up a camera, photographer Joel Meyerowitz has compiled hundreds of his favorite images for a new two-volume collection. canonical: https://time.com/3793028/joel-meyerowitz-taking-his-time/ author: Nate Rawlings article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2012-11-02T08:00:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:40:56.385Z article:section: World og:title: Joel Meyerowitz: Taking His Time as a Master Street Photographer og:description: In honor of the 50th anniversary of when he first took up a camera, photographer Joel Meyerowitz has compiled hundreds of his favorite images for a new two-volume collection. og:url: https://time.com/3793028/joel-meyerowitz-taking-his-time/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0bef5f7f64204eb6/6987a0ed3c1639189c453db1/h_joelmeyerowitz.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Joel Meyerowitz — Taking My Time og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Joel Meyerowitz: Taking His Time as a Master Street Photographer twitter:description: In honor of the 50th anniversary of when he first took up a camera, photographer Joel Meyerowitz has compiled hundreds of his favorite images for a new two-volume collection. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0bef5f7f64204eb6/6987a0ed3c1639189c453db1/h_joelmeyerowitz.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Taking His Time: A Look Back at 50 Years of Joel Meyerowitz's Photographs > Sponsored content. 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In that article, entitled “The Figure a Poem Makes,” Frost wrote, “Like giants we are always hurling experience ahead of us to pave the future with against the day when we may want to strike a line of purpose across it for somewhere.” Though he didn’t know it at the time, acclaimed photographer Joel Meyerowitz began hurling his own experiences ahead of him in 1962\. While working as an art director at an advertising agency, Meyerowitz met photographer Robert Frank who was shooting a clothing brochure. Meyerowitz watched Frank move while he photographed, and he had an incredible epiphany. On the way back to the office, Meyerowitz walked the streets of New York for more than an hour. “I felt like I was reading the text of the street in a way that I never had before,” he says. When he returned to the office, Meyerowitz told his boss, Harry Gordon, that he was quitting. He wanted to be a photographer. Gordon then asked him a crucial question: did he have a camera? The answer was no, so Gordon lent him a 35mm camera and Meyerowitz embarked on the great journey of his life. Over the next 50 years Meyerowitz exhibited at the MoMA, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, published books and taught photography at Cooper Union. But there was always one place where you had a chance to run into him and become immortalized in his gargantuan body of work. Meyerowitz is, first and foremost, a street photographer. Though he has shot street scenes in France, Germany, Atlanta, Ohio and dozens of places in between, the chaotic streets of New York City make up his favorite studio. “Fifth Avenue is my boulevard,” he says. “No street in the world, and I’ve traveled a lot, has for me the kind of sexy, improvisatory collisions between elegance and lowness. You can see bike messengers and models, billionaires and hustlers, and it’s all out there every day.” That first day with Robert Frank served as more than just a catalytic inspiration; it laid the foundation for how Meyerowitz would record street life. He bobs and weaves through the throngs of people, searching for that serendipitous moment that becomes a great photograph. “The way someone makes a gesture on the street or the way couples react to each other or the simultaneity of two things happening at the same time and the relationship between them,” are some of the elements he looks for. “It was the wonder of human nature and this incredible capacity for things to keep showing themselves to me,” he says.  Joel Meyerowitz: Taking My Time (Phaidon Press. Limited Edition including signed print, November 2012) Phaidon Press When he is shooting on the street, there isn’t much time to contemplate each moment. “Photography takes place in a fraction of a second,” Meyerowitz says. “There isn’t a lot of time to think about things. You have to hone your instinct. You learn to hone that skill and timing so you’re in the right place at the right time.” Although he has made images that have moved audiences for decades, that has never been his true motivation. “I’m not out there to make another ‘great picture,’” he says. “I’m really out there to feel what it feels like to be alive and conscious in that moment. In a sense, the record of my photographs is a record of moments of consciousness and awareness that have come to me in my life.” This year, the 50th anniversary of when he first took up the camera, Meyerowitz compiled hundreds of his favorite images for the two-volume collection, [_Joel Meyerowitz: Taking My Time_ ](http://www.phaidon.com/store/photography/joel-meyerowitz-taking-my-time-9780714865027/)[(Phaidon Press)](http://www.phaidon.com/store/photography/joel-meyerowitz-taking-my-time-9780714865027/). The project isn’t just a greatest hits collection. “It’s easy to make a book of your very best things and not necessarily have a narrative arc,” he says. “I wanted to stick strictly to the chronology as precisely as I could and show my own development.” The result is a visual biography of an artist who for half a century has snapped moments–fractions of seconds–and preserved them forever. Each tells a unique story that Meyerowitz has used to pave his life. Through the images of people and places and tiny moments in time, one can see a remarkable line of purpose he has created, one that runs fluidly across the experience of his life. [_Joel Meyerowitz_](http://www.joelmeyerowitz.com/) _is a New York City-based photographer. Beginning Nov. 2, his work will be displayed in a_ [_two-part solo show at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York_](http://www.howardgreenberg.com/frontend/#app=84b7&cf5b-selectedIndex=0)_._ _LightBox previously featured Meyerowitz’s_ [_photographs of the destruction and reconstruction at Ground Zero_](http://lightbox.time.com/2011/09/10/joel-meyerowitz-ground-zero-then-and-now/).  New York City, 1963 © Joel Meyerowitz  New York City, 1963 © Joel Meyerowitz  New York City, 1963 © Joel Meyerowitz  New York City, 1963 © Joel Meyerowitz  Paris, France, 1967 © Joel Meyerowitz  Florida, 1970 © Joel Meyerowitz  New York City, 1975 © Joel Meyerowitz  New York City, 1977 © Joel Meyerowitz  Charleston, South Carolina, 1982 © Joel Meyerowitz  Doorway to the sea, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1982 © Joel Meyerowitz  New York City, 1982 © Joel Meyerowitz  Caroline, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1983 © Joel Meyerowitz  Bay/Sky, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1985 © Joel Meyerowitz  New York City, 1988 © Joel Meyerowitz  Five more found, New York City, 2001 © Joel Meyerowitz  Fire, France, 2011 © Joel Meyerowitz ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3793028/joel-meyerowitz-taking-his-time/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3793028/joel-meyerowitz-taking-his-time/"},"headline":"Taking His Time: A Look Back at 50 Years of Joel Meyerowitz's Photographs","datePublished":"2012-11-02T08:00:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:40:56.385Z","description":"In honor of the 50th anniversary of when he first took up a camera, photographer Joel Meyerowitz has compiled hundreds of his favorite images for a new two-volume collection.","url":"https://time.com/3793028/joel-meyerowitz-taking-his-time/","keywords":["LightBox","New York City","Out There","MoMA","street photography","Large-Format Photography"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0bef5f7f64204eb6/6987a0ed3c1639189c453db1/h_joelmeyerowitz.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nate Rawlings","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nate-rawlings/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0bef5f7f64204eb6/6987a0ed3c1639189c453db1/h_joelmeyerowitz.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Joel Meyerowitz — Taking My Time","caption":"Joel Meyerowitz — Taking My Time","creditText":"© Joel Meyerowitz","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-lightbox/","name":"LightBox"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3793028/joel-meyerowitz-taking-his-time/","name":"Taking His Time: A Look Back at 50 Years of Joel Meyerowitz's Photographs"}}]}] ```