  About the Artwork
  
  
  During the 1970s, many American photographers established color photography as a serious medium for aesthetic growth and experimentation. Joel Meyerowitz abandoned the earlier black-and-white film, urban subjects, and spontaneous photographic method when he became interested in color photography during 1973. Meyerowitz felt color photography more accurately expressed his memory or experience of a subject. He acquired an 8 x 10 Deardoff view camera and completed the “Cape Light” series during the summers of 1976 and 1977 while living on Cape Cod in New England. He created several versions of “Porch, Provincetown,” depicting a view of the ocean during mid-afternoon, dusk, and twilight. Each photograph has a different sensibility of light, color, and sensation and expresses the emotive character of his work and his sensitivity for the unique qualities that color photography offers.
  
  
  Title
  Porch, Provincetown
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1977
  
  Artist
  Joel Meyerowitz
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  born 1938
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Chromogenic print
  
  
  Dimensions
  Image: 15 1/2 × 19 5/8 inches (39.4 × 49.8 cm)
  Sheet: 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Photographs
  
  
  Department
  Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs
  
  
  Credit
  Gift of Frederick P. and Amy McCombs Currier
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  F1987.52
  
  
  Copyright
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