THE PORTRAITS (signed with print)

John Myers
THE PORTRAITS (signed with print)

Photographs: John Myers

Publisher: RRB Photobooks

176 pages

Year: 2018

Price: 200 €

Comments: Clothbound hardcover, 29 x 24,5 cm. Limited Edition of 450 signed and numbered copies, including 5x4" signed silver-gelatin print of 'Giraffe, 1973. In very good condition.

The collection was shot throughout the 1970's in the West Midlands, his pictures are renowned for having a uniquely British feel to them.

“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