Michael Meyersfeld

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Michael Meyersfeld
Born (1940-06-05) June 5, 1940 (age 81)
Johannesburg, South Africa
NationalitySouth African
Spouse(s)Saranne Meyersfeld
Website meyersfeld.com

Michael Meyersfeld is a fine art photographer living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa. Meyersfeld works with both fine art and advertising photography.

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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. [1]

Awards

Exhibitions

Publications

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References

  1. Johan Myburg, 2018
  2. 2009 Sony PROFOTO Awards, South Africa "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 27 June 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. 2010 - Gold Non-Commissioned Body Single - http://entries.the-awards.com/myentry_public_popup.php?&eid=3225&i_no=0&awd_cat_id=33
  4. ABSA Retrospective - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 August 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. Els, Carien (8 August 2011). "A brief look: A transient life by Michael Meyersfeld". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  6. David Brown Gallery - http://www.davidbrownfineart.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=16