Photographer Joel Meyerowitz's unique approach to colour and light is showcased in stunning new exhibition

Titled Joel Meyerowitz: Dialogues, nan Huxley-Parlour accumulation opens connected 18 January and runs done until March. Representing Joel's 4th solo accumulation astatine nan gallery, Dialogues is fittingly named arsenic it coincides pinch different important show of nan photographer's activity astatine London's Tate Modern.

The taxable of pairing runs moreover much profound, arsenic nan activity presented successful Dialogues is displayed successful couples to uncover nan unexpected parallels that look successful Joel's imagery. And by doing so, nan photographer's enduring fascination pinch colour and nan experimental ways he uses it comes to nan surface.

According to Joel, nan pairs of photographs connected show are "relational" images, each linked by light, colour and composition. Both exhibitions usage pairing to analyse nan colour successful Joel's pictures and his characteristic usage of "complex compositional building and unresolved, non-hierarchical imagery."

Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1983 Courtesy: Image courtesy of Huxley-Parlour, London and Howard Greenberg, NY Copyright: Joel Meyerowitz

Dune Grass House, Truro, Massachusetts, 1984 Courtesy: Image courtesy of Huxley-Parlour, London and Howard Greenberg, NY Copyright: Joel Meyerowitz

Longnook Beach, Truro, Massachusetts, 1983 Courtesy: Image courtesy of Huxley-Parlour, London and Howard Greenberg, NY Copyright: Joel Meyerowitz

Rising Diver, Florida, 2007 Courtesy: Image courtesy of Huxley-Parlour, London and Howard Greenberg, NY Copyright: Joel Meyerowitz

As for nan subjects successful Joel's work, nan photographer tends to thin connected distinctly American aesthetics, specified arsenic nan stars and stripes, while blending them pinch meditative palettes. The photographs connected show span from 1964 to 2011 and see lesser-known images from his extended archive alongside his best-known pieces, specified arsenic his early thoroughfare activity and images from his seminal series, Cape Light.

"Meyerowitz is wide acknowledged to beryllium 1 of nan first photographers – amongst others specified arsenic William Eggleston and Stephen Shore - to bring colour photography from nan periphery to nan centre of good creation photography," says Huxley-Parlour.

In a modern world wherever everything tin beryllium recorded and reviewed pinch a mates of smartphone surface taps, Joel's revolutionary attack to colour tin almost beryllium easy to underestimate. "Historically, wherever achromatic and achromatic photography was understood to beryllium a superior medium, colour was wide considered to beryllium technically inferior and aesthetically limiting – occupying nan realm of advertizing campaigns, television, and individual vacation photographs," adds nan gallery.

Paris, France, 1967 Courtesy: Image courtesy of Huxley-Parlour, London and Howard Greenberg, NY Copyright: Joel Meyerowitz

Malaga, Spain, 1967 Courtesy: Image courtesy of Huxley-Parlour, London and Howard Greenberg, NY Copyright: Joel Meyerowitz

"In defiance of this, Meyerowitz's activity demonstrated really nan mean allowed nuanced contemplation of form, composition, and mood."

Meanwhile, astatine nan ongoing show astatine Tate Modern, London, visitors will spot Joel's progression from colour to achromatic and achromatic successful nan 1960s, erstwhile he first began to clasp nan limitations and aesthetics introduced by colour film. Featured useful see A Question of Color, successful which Joel carried astir 2 cameras and changeable astir nan aforesaid segment some successful colour and achromatic and white.