The World is Not Beautiful, Photographs 1973-1981, by John Myers.

(2017)

First edition

Medium Format softcover in fine condition. Minor shelfwear to the cover corners and spine. Slight toning to cover and page block.

60 pages

About

John Myers' portrait and landscape photography was produced throughout the 1970s in and around the West Midlands and went largely unnoticed until a signature exhibition at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham in 2011. This publication presents the artist's photographic response to 1970s conceptualism, and situates his work in the wider international context. Myers' landscape work compares favourably to the new understandings of 'man altered landscape' photography which were developed by the luminaries of the New Topographics movement (including Stephen Shore, Lewis Baltz and Bend and Hilla Becher) in the USA and in Europe from in the mid 1970s. The work accompanied the exhibitions at UH Galleries, Hatfield (2 December 2016 - 21 January 2017); Departure Lounge, Luton (24 February - 29 April 2017); and Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum, (3 March - 27 May 2018).