Porch, Provincetown

1977

Joel Meyerowitz American, born 1938

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During the 1970s, many American photographers established color photography as a serious medium for aesthetic growth and experimentation. Joel Meyerowitz abandoned the earlier black-and-white film, urban subjects, and spontaneous photographic method when he became interested in color photography during 1973. Meyerowitz felt color photography more accurately expressed his memory or experience of a subject. He acquired an 8 x 10 Deardoff view camera and completed the “Cape Light” series during the summers of 1976 and 1977 while living on Cape Cod in New England. He created several versions of “Porch, Provincetown,” depicting a view of the ocean during mid-afternoon, dusk, and twilight. Each photograph has a different sensibility of light, color, and sensation and expresses the emotive character of his work and his sensitivity for the unique qualities that color photography offers.

Title Porch, Provincetown

Artwork Date 1977

Artist Joel Meyerowitz

Life Dates born 1938

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Chromogenic print

Dimensions Image: 15 1/2 × 19 5/8 inches (39.4 × 49.8 cm) Sheet: 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Frederick P. and Amy McCombs Currier

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F1987.52

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Signed Inscribed, dated, and signed in black ink, verso, lower left: Porch Series Provincetown 1977 Joel Meyerowitz 1983

Inscriptions Inscribed, in black ink on sticker on verso, lower right: JM / pl.3D

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Frederick P. and Amy McCombs Currier (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1987-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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