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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Tom May

This book changed color photography forever by turning Cape Cod’s quiet light into high art – 50 years later, it's back and better

A wood-panelled station wagon is parked outside a small white cottage with green trim and a Cosmos sign, the sea stretching out behind under a pale blue sky.

Some photobooks age like milk. Cape Light by Joel Meyerowitz has aged like the Cape Cod light it depicts. Patient, unhurried and somehow better with time.

Now Aperture has announced a fresh hardcover edition of this 1978 classic, remastering the same 40 images that rewired what color photography was allowed to be.

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