John Myers

John Myers (*1944, Bradford) is a British landscape and portrait photographer and painter. Between 1973 and 1981 he photographed mundane aspects of middle class life in the centre of England, black and white portraits of ordinary people and suburbia within walking distance of his home in Stourbridge.

 

Myers self-published this photography in books in 1974 and 1990; then only after renewed critical attention in 2011 were more books dedicated solely to his photography published by rrbphotobooks.

 

Originally from Bradford, Myers has been based in the Black Country town of Stourbridge, in the West Midlands, since graduating from art school in Newcastle in 1969.

 

His series of Televisions is a strong conceptual work very often compared with the works by Bernd and Hilla Becher.

The IKS Collection holds a set of the Televisions,1973 and 18 of his outstanding portraits, 1973-1983.

 

 

Televisions, 1973

 

 

Television No. 1, 1973. silver gelatin print. 20 x 25 cm (image size). AP 1 / Ed 8 + 2AP, signed and dated © John Myers / courtesy IKS Collection

 

Television No. 2, 1973. silver gelatin print. 20 x 25 cm (image size). AP 1 / Ed 8 + 2AP, signed and dated © John Myers / courtesy IKS Collection

 

Television No. 3, 1973. silver gelatin print. 20 x 25 cm (image size). AP 1 / Ed 8 + 2AP, signed and dated © John Myers / courtesy IKS Collection

 

Television No. 4, 1973. silver gelatin print. 20 x 25 cm (image size). AP 1 / Ed 8 + 2AP, signed and dated © John Myers / courtesy IKS Collection

 

Television No. 5, 1973. silver gelatin print. 20 x 25 cm (image size). AP 1 / Ed 8 + 2AP, signed and dated © John Myers / courtesy IKS Collection

 

Television No. 6, 1973. silver gelatin print. 20 x 25 cm (image size). AP 1 / Ed 8 + 2AP, signed and dated © John Myers / courtesy IKS Collection

 

Television No. 7, 1973. silver gelatin print. 20 x 25 cm (image size). AP 1 / Ed 8 + 2AP, signed and dated © John Myers / courtesy IKS Collection

 

Television No. 8, 1973. silver gelatin print. 20 x 25 cm (image size). AP 1 / Ed 8 + 2AP, signed and dated © John Myers / courtesy IKS Collection

 

Television No. 9, 1973. silver gelatin print. 20 x 25 cm (image size). AP 1 / Ed 8 + 2AP, signed and dated © John Myers / courtesy IKS Collection

 

Television No. 10, 1973. silver gelatin print. 20 x 25 cm (image size). AP 1 / Ed 8 + 2AP, signed and dated © John Myers / courtesy IKS Collection

 

 

Porträts, 1973 - 1983

 

 

Motorcyclist and combination, 1973. silver gelatin print. 40,2 x 32 cm (image size). AP 1 / Ed 7 + 2AP, signed and dated © John Myers / courtesy IKS Collection

 

Nicola and Donny Osmond, 1973. silver gelatin print. 40,2 x 32 cm (image size). AP 1 / Ed 7 + 2AP, signed and dated © John Myers / courtesy IKS Collection

 

Mr Jackson, 1974. silver gelatin print. 40,2 x 32 cm (image size). AP 1 / Ed 7 + 2AP, signed and dated © John Myers / courtesy IKS Collection

 

Female Brick Worker, 1983. silver gelatin print. 40,2 x 32 cm (image size). AP 1 / Ed 7 + 2AP, signed and dated © John Myers / courtesy IKS Collection