Michael Meyersfeld is a fine art photographer living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa. Meyersfeld works with both fine art and advertising photography.
Life and work
Born to a South African mother and French-German father, Meyersfeld's interest in photography began at a very early age when he made his first contact prints from a Baby Brownie camera at his family home in Johannesburg. He was schooled at King Edward Vll, and attained a B.Com. in 1961, from the University of the Witwatersrand, after which he joined the family steel merchandising business.
At 47, he left the family business and for the next twenty years worked as an advertising photographer, all the while exhibiting his fine art work. Most of Meyersfeld's photographs require a level of ‘staging'. As examples, Life Staged, a series consisting of four bodies of work, 12 Naked Men (2007), Woman Undone, Guests at the Troyeville Hotel and Urban Disquiet. Gradually the representational has made way for pictures that happen without planning.Johan Myburg, 2018
Awards 2009 - 1 Gold Award - Professional Advertising Category (Yum Yum Purple)2009 Sony PROFOTO Awards, South Africa 2010 - Gold Non-Commissioned Body Single (Alex Church), London AOP Awards, London2010 - Gold Non-Commissioned Body Single - http://entries.the-awards.com/myentry_public_popup.php?&eid=3225&i_no=0&awd_cat_id=33
Exhibitions 2012: Retrospective: ABSA GalleryABSA Retrospective - 2011: Transience: In Toto Gallery 2007: David Brown GalleryDavid Brown Gallery - http://www.davidbrownfineart.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=16
Publications Gaze. Life Staged. . Accompanied the exhibition of the same title.
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