Jeff Mermelstein Explained

Jeff Mermelstein
Birth Place:	New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA^[1]
Nationality:	American
Field:	Photography
Module:	Child: yes Years Active: 1981  - present

Jeff Mermelstein (born 1957)^[2] is an American photojournalist and street photographer, known for his work in New York City.

Life and work

Mermelstein lives in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, New York.

Using the camera on an iPhone, he made a series of photographs of messages on people's phone screens in New York City.^[3] He began the series in October 2017 and published it periodically on Instagram, then as the book #nyc in 2020.^[3]

Publications

Books by Mermelstein

• SideWalk.
  • Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 1999. .
  • Arles: Actes Sud, 1999. .
  • Frankfurt: Umschau/Braus, 1999. .
  • Side Walk: Per le strade di New York. Rome: Peliti, 1999. .
• No Title Here. New York: powerHouse, 2003. .
• Twirl×Run. New York: powerHouse, 2009. .
• Arena. TBW, 2019. . With an afterword by Robert Slifkin.
• Hardened. London: Mörel, 2019. . Edited by David Campany.

1. nyc. London: Mack, 2020. .^{[4] [5]}

Other books with contributions by Mermelstein

• Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren, eds. Street Photography Now. London: Thames & Hudson, 2010; (English, hardback). London: Thames & Hudson, 2010; (French). London: Thames & Hudson, 2012; (English, paperback).

Awards

• 1991: Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowship^[6]
• 1998: European Publishers Award for Photography^[7]

Exhibitions

Solo

• Color Photographs, Dance Theater Workshop Gallery; New York City, 1987
• Recent Color Photographs, The Camera Club of New York, New York City, 1991
• SideWalk, Italy, France, Ireland, Canada, 1999–2001
• Ground Zero, International Center of Photography, New York, 2002
• Jeff Mermelstein, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York City, 2006

External links

• Mermelstein's Instagram

Notes and References

1. Web site: Biography & Links. Jeff Mermelstein. artnet.com. 2014-04-08.
2. Web site: Biography . Jeff Mermelstein . Steven Kasher Gallery . 2014-04-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140413145257/http://www.stevenkasher.com/artist/Jeff_Mermelstein/biography/ . 2014-04-13 .
3. Web site: This photographer snaps the intimate texts of strangers on the NYC streets. July 22, 2020. Dazed.
4. Web site: 2020-07-31. A Photographer Secretly Snapped Shots of New Yorkers' Text Messages. See the Humorous and Heartbreaking Images Here. 15 July 2020. artnet News.
5. News: Alex. Rayner. 2020-07-31. Sex, lies and text messages: the photographer snapping New Yorkers' private thoughts. The Guardian. 29 July 2020. 0261-3077.
6. Web site: Biography . Jeff Mermelstein . Rick Wester Fine Art . 2014-04-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140413150811/http://www.rickwesterfineart.com/bio-mermelstein/ . 2014-04-13 .
7. "Previous winners ", European Publishers Award for Photography. Accessed 1 May 2014.