Of Interest 3.26: Joel Meyerowitz

Nick Turpin published a previously unreleased 1981 Joel Meyerowitz documentary on iN-PUBLiC this week that can be watched here.

An interesting complement to this video is this interview with Meyerowitz on the program "Visions and Images" hosted by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, also from 1981.

 

Interview: Amani Willett

Interviewed by phone from his home in Brooklyn
January 16th and 19th, 2011

New York City-based photographer Amani Willett was recently featured in the book Street Photography Now and is a long-term member of the highly respected iN-PUBLiC collective of street photographers. His photographs have also been included in the books ReGeneration: Telling Stories From Our Twenties and Dawn of the 21st Century: The Millennium Photo Project. He has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among many other spaces.

In this full-length interview he talks about his years working at Magnum Photos, why street photography must evolve as a genre to survive, and his decision to enter a photography MFA program in the midst of a successful career. He also shares with us 15 new images not previously published or shown.