John Myers
Past exhibition
Overview
From February 13, 2019 to April 6, 2019 at the Clémentine de la Féronnière Gallery
Public opening Wednesday, November 13 (18h – 22h)
Myers work was shot throughout the 1970s in the West Midlands, and his pictures have a uniquely British feel to them.
“ a chance to see this body of work in full and to appreciate its revolutionary place in British visual culture” – Pete James
“The best speaker on photography I have ever seen” – Brian Griffin
“ I look at them and see the 70’s my body remembers” – Grayson Perry
“Portraiture was the heart of his practice, simple slow portraiture of the kinds of people who were missed by more generic image making…Had they been seen in the magazines, these would have had just as much effect as Arbus. They’re unsettling, discomfiting in a British understated way.” – Frances Hodgson
“very important and under appreciated” – Martin Parr
“I know that masterpieces are a thing of the past but I wonder when I look again at the portrait of the man in the cardigan (Mr. Jackson, 1974): his pensive look, the cigarette held like that (with a potential for ash on the carpet), the cardigan and the slippers, all those mesh designs and the commonplace bits and pieces in the cabinet – and that contained wood flame in the wood grain – brilliant.” – Ian Jeffrey
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