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Man on the Champs-Elysées, Paris, France

A work made of dye imbibition print.

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  • A work made of dye imbibition print.

Date:

1967, printed 1983

Artist:

Joel Meyerowitz
American, born 1938

About this artwork

Over the past five decades, Joel Meyerowitz has examined the world in color, producing sustained photographic series of Cape Cod, the Gateway Arch, Tuscany, and New York’s Ground Zero, among other sites. In 1966 Meyerowitz was inspired by watching Robert Frank photograph on a commercial shoot to quit his job as an art director and take his camera to the streets. He decided to educate his eye abroad, so in August of that year he bought 700 rolls of film—both black and white and color—and trekked across Europe, using his 35mm camera as an artist-traveler in earlier times would have used pencils and paper. Photography, however, can be more invasive than sketching, as evidenced by this Paris image, in which color adds humor and intensity to the photographer’s quick stalking of his street prey.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Joel Meyerowitz

Title

Man on the Champs-Elysées, Paris, France

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1967

Medium

Dye imbibition print

Dimensions

Image: 30.3 × 46.2 cm (11 15/16 × 18 1/4 in.); Paper: 40.8 × 50.7 cm (16 1/8 × 20 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Jack H. Hayflick

Reference Number

1983.1766

Extended information about this artwork

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