A collection of photographs by American photographer Joel Meyerowitz capturing a calm summer day on Cape Cod.
This book is a Japanese edition by Libroport, faithfully reproducing the beautiful structure of the original edition (Times Books, 1985).
Known as a pioneer of color photography, Meyerowitz used an 8x10 inch large format camera to capture the themes of light, time, and silence. Every shot—afternoon sunlight, a figure standing on the beach, curtains swaying in the wind—is filled with a poetic gaze that elevates a summer moment into eternity.
This book is neither a documentary nor a fashion piece, but rather a book that captures the "beauty of everyday life" to the utmost, and it is still highly regarded as a milestone in American new color photography.
[Title] A Summer's Day
[Publisher] Libroport
[Publication date] September 7, 1991 (first edition)
[Number of pages] Unpaginated
[Size] Approx. 2 9.5 x
27.5 x 2.0 cm
[Format] Hardcover
[Title reading] A Summer's Day
[Authors/Editors]
Written by Joel Meyerowitz, edited by Tomoko Yamagishi, designed by Carl Zahn
[Printing] Toppan Printing
[ISBN] 4-8457-0664-4
[Condition] Used, average condition [5] (stains on top, slight discoloration on cover)
[Accessories] Reader card
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Joel Meyerowitz (1938-)
Born in 1938 in the Bronx, New York, USA.
A photographer known as a pioneer of color photography.
In 1962, while working as an advertising art director, he became a photographer after seeing Robert Frank's photo shoot. In his early days, he focused on street photography with a 35mm camera, and alongside William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, he pioneered the American New Color movement of the 1970s.
From the late 1970s, he began photographing landscapes using an 8x10 inch large format camera, developing works that explored the themes of light and the transitions of time. His representative works include "Cape Light" (1979), "A Summer's Day" (1985), and "Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive" (2006).
Based in New York, his works are housed in museums around the world, including MoMA (Museum of Modern Art, New York), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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