Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective

Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective is Joel Meyerowitz's first single-volume account of his own career, published in 2018. It is arranged in reverse chronological order, starting with recent work and moving backward to the New York streets where he began photographing in 1962.

The book, with text by the photography historian Colin Westerbeck, moves through over a hundred plates spanning his major projects: his late still-life studies made in homage to Giorgio Morandi, a series on trees, the color and black-and-white comparisons he has returned to across his career, his access to Ground Zero in the months after September 11, 2001, a project retracing routes Robert Frank drove for The Americans, and the early New York and Cape Cod street pictures that established him as one of the first photographers to make color a serious medium for art photography.

Meyerowitz (b. 1938) left a career in advertising design in 1962 after watching Robert Frank at work on a shoot. He went on to publish Cape Light (1978), one of the best-selling photography books of its era, and to teach at Cooper Union. Hudson Street Library also holds his Immersion / Visions (Winch), a separate, earlier title. Where I Find Myself is the career-spanning book that followed it.