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Authors, works and languages of the image
Joel Meyerowitz
Sky Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1977

"Sky Provincetown, Massachusetts", 1977. © Joel Meyerowitz.
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Introduction
Captured in 1977 by Joel Meyerowitz, this image serves as a visual manifesto of an epochal transition, not only for the individual trajectory of the artist but for the very ontology of the photographic medium. In a decade when color photography was timidly beginning to claim its status as fine art, breaking free from the stigma of commercial and amateur snapshot use, Meyerowitz utilized the landscape of Cape Cod to demonstrate the expressive, tonal, and atmospheric potential of color film.
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