Joel Meyerowitz — Morandi’s Objects (Second printing, 2016)

In Morandi’s Objects, Joel Meyerowitz trades the spontaneity of the street for the monastic stillness of Giorgio Morandi’s Bologna studio. Shot in 2015, this series of photographs is a quiet homage to the Italian painter’s obsessive practice. Meyerowitz was granted access not just to Morandi’s workspace, but to the 260 dust-covered, chipped and unassuming objects that Morandi arranged, painted, and returned to endlessly over four decades.

There is a haunting reverence here. Meyerowitz doesn't photograph these bottles and tins as props, but as vessels of accumulated presence — carriers of attention. Under a consistent, glowing light, each object emerges with its own register of silence and wear. They sit with the aura of relics: ordinary in form, but thick with use and ritual. Meyerowitz invites the viewer to see not just the objects, but the thinking that held them in place.

Published by Damiani in 2016, this first edition is a tactile extension of its subject — linen-bound, softly lit, and immaculately paced. Morandi’s Objects enters the Darwin archive as a meditation on the act of looking itself: how a photographic eye can inherit the painter’s gaze and extend its devotion.

Technical Sheet

Title: Morandi’s Objects
Artist / Author: Joel Meyerowitz
Date: 2016 (First edition)
Technique / Printing Method: Offset
Medium / Materials: Hardcover, linen-bound
Dimensions (cm): 25.9 x 2.0 x 32.5 cm
Language: English
Pages: 116
Publisher / Editor: Damiani
ISBN: 9788862084536

Condition: USED - MINT ( a little stain on cover)