Ithaca Gallery presents The Color of Now, an online exhibition of six works by Joel Meyerowitz spanning 1963 to the mid-1970s, a period that would prove decisive not only for the artist but for the history of photography itself. During this period, color photography was considered incompatible with serious artistic intention. The prevailing tradition, shaped by Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, demanded black and white, and to deviate from it was to risk dismissal from the critical conversation. Meyerowitz rejected that premise entirely. For him, color was not embellishment but a formal element as fundamental to the image as light, composition, or form, its presence not decorative but declarative, a precise and considered language through which the world could be read anew. Taken together, these six works document a photographer in the act of redefining the terms of the medium. They bear witness to a conviction formed not in retrospect but in practice, across a decade of American life rendered with precision, clarity, and an unwavering belief in the expressive primacy of color.
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