Bay/sky

by Joel Meyerowitz

Bay/Sky, the masterwork of photographer Joel Meyerowitz, pays elegant homage to the beauty of that place where the sea meets the sky. The culmination of sixteen years of photographic exploration and observation, this book features forty-seven color plates depicting the ephemeral edge of the Meyerowitz used the horizon life, and sometimes its erasure, to create fields of color and form. The resulting photographs merge the formalist and naturalist themes that he has addressed throughout his career. These exquisite images are contemplative, almost melodic descriptions of light, air, water, and wind taken from first light to dusk and beyond. Meyerowitz's first photographs of sky and water appeared in his now-classic work, Cape Light. As he continued to photograph on Cape Cod, he became aware of and began to explore the conceptual nature of his approach to the theme of water and air. Bay/Sky includes an astonishing range of photographic imagery, even though the vantage point is essentially