Joel Meyerowitz's 'Cape Light' Reissued 50 Years Later

A new hardcover edition of Joel Meyerowitz's 1978 classic, 'Cape Light,' has been released by Aperture, featuring remastered images that redefined color photography. The book's original success lay in its elevation of ordinary scenes, like a grocery store at dusk or an empty beach, to high art, demonstrating that color could possess the same gravitas as black-and-white. Meyerowitz, alongside contemporaries like William Eggleston, challenged the art world's perception of color photography as purely commercial. The reissue includes 40 images and offers a lesson in patient observation and waiting for the right light, a technique still relevant today.