This new and expanded edition of Joel’s widely acclaimed 1983 photobook Wild Flowers features new and unpublished images and a larger format. For nearly 50 years Meyerowitz has tended his visual garden in the streets, parks, and cities that he has visited or lived in. He goes into the streets wide-eyed and passionate, carrying a machine ideally suited to the task of taking it all in.
He goes out into the streets open-eyed and passionate, carrying a machine that is perfectly suited to the task of taking it all in.

The Leica, as quick as the flick of an eyelash, effortlessly interrupts time, stopping and holding it forever. These walks gave shape to new territory for him, which he began to think of as a garden that reflected the variety of his observations. Then, one day, while editing, Meyerowitz stumbled upon a small group of these flower photographs which he had gathered unknowingly.

He began to believe that this innocent premise might be enough to tie together many of his other photographic concerns under the nominal subject of ‘flowers,’ which, given the surprises of city life, he viewed as flowers gone somewhat berserk—and so Wild Flowers was born.