John myers

Photographs of people living in Stourbridge in the 1970s by John Myers.

Photographs of people living in Stourbridge in the 1970s by John Myers.

Rebecca Mead writes about the work of John Myers, who photographed portraits in the English town of Stourbridge in the nineteen-seventies.

"However hard I tried to ‘illustrate’ an aspect of the urban environment, to unmask and present how this sleepy, suburban environment ‘functioned’ and fitted together somehow it always failed".

John Myers Photographs of Middle England | Portraits, Boring Photos, Televisions, Substations, Furniture Store and Houses

“I believe photographers have got to come to terms with the world we live in, not the world journalists like, which is spectacular and exciting and makes good copy,” says John Myers. “Photographers and sub editors and journalists, all kinds of journalist want a story. They want to sell papers, and what sells is something unusual. 'Man with three legs marries 86 year old widow', it makes a terrific headline. They're not so interested in what's going on down the road at number 83.”

Halloween II.

"That's it, that's the Myers house. That's where it happened, Halloween 1963." ―Pete McCabe telling Frank Hawkins about Judith Myers' murder[src] The Myers residence is the household of the Myers family, consisting of: Peter Myers, Edith Myers, Judith Myers, Michael Myers, Kara Strode, Danny Strode, John Strode, Debra Strode, and Tim Strode in the original series and Deborah Myers, Judith Myers, Michael Myers and Ronnie White in the remake. The house was originally built in the 1890s and it…