Joel Meyerowitz (b. in 1938 in the Bronx, NY City) is a street photographer who began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1959 with a degree in painting and medical illustration. Inspired by Robert Frank's book "The Americans" and by the work of Garry Winogrand, Meyerowitz took to the streets with a 35mm camera and black and white film. He also drew inspiration from Eugene Atget, whence the seeds of his most renowned work were planted. "In the pantheon of greats there is Robert Frank and there is Atget" - Meyerowitz goes on to say that "those two visions of the world captivated me early on, opened me up".