Fresh Air, Joel Meyerowitz

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz on this edition of Fresh Air. He took three portraits of the World Trade Center Towers in 1981. His work appears in a new group show, Here is New York, which is located on Prince Street in Soho, not far from Ground Zero. The exhibit aims to be democratic, having accepted hundreds of submissions from professional and amateur photographers alike on the subject of NYC before and after September 11. All of the prints are sold to the public for $25 each, and proceeds go to a World Trade Center relief fund. Meyerowitz thinks of himself as a street photographer. He's published eleven books of his photographs as well as a book on the history of street photography. He also recently completed a documentary film called POP. (Broadcast Date: October 23, 2001)