Joel Meyerowitz A Summer's Day (Libroport edition)

A collection of photographs by American photographer Joel Meyerowitz, capturing a tranquil summer day on Cape Cod.

This book is a Japanese edition published by Libroport, faithfully reproducing the beautiful composition of the original edition (Times Books, 1985).

Meyerowitz, known as a pioneer of color photography, used an 8x10 inch large format camera to photograph light, time, and stillness as his main subjects. The afternoon sun, figures standing by the sea, curtains swaying in the wind—each shot is filled with a poetic gaze that elevates a fleeting summer moment to eternity.

This is a book that refines the "beauty of everyday life" to its utmost, beyond documentary or fashion, and is still highly regarded as a masterpiece of American New Color photography.

[Title] A Summer’s Day
[Publisher] Libroport
[Publication Date] September 7, 1991 (First Edition)
[Page Count] Unpaginated
[Size] Approx. 29.5×27.5×2.0cm
[Format] Hardcover
[Title Reading] A Summer’s Day
[Author/Editor] Joel Meyerowitz/Author, Kyoko Yamagishi/Editor, Carl Zahn/Design
[Printing] Toppan Printing
[ISBN] 4-8457-0664-4
[Condition] Used, Good [5] (Light stains on top edge, slight fading on cover)
[Accessories] Reader's 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 transitioned to photography after witnessing Robert Frank's work. Initially, he focused on street photography with a 35mm camera, and alongside William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, he established the American New Color movement of the 1970s.

From the late 1970s, he began using an 8x10 inch large format camera to photograph landscapes, developing works around the themes of light and the passage of time. His representative works include 'Cape Light' (1979), 'A Summer’s Day' (1985), and 'Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive' (2006).

He is based in New York, and his works are held in museums worldwide, including MoMA (Museum of Modern Art, New York), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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