RRB Photobooks are pleased to present Looking at the Overlooked by John Myers. Looking at the Overlooked will be the second volume of a series of three, which will represent Myers collected works.
Looking at the Overlooked describes a way of encountering the world. The images, all taken within walking distance of Myers’ home in Stourbridge are scenes encountered without narrative or emotion, as if Myers were the first person to come across the places he turned his lens upon. The work is sequenced as a journey through a town, generic and not site specific, a backdrop to the mundane and everyday that is too often seen and yet unconsidered as part of our visual landscape
Portfolio Edition of 8 copies with a portfolio of twelve 9.5x12" silver-gelatin prints, also include the signed and limited 10x8" and signed 5x4" print
RRP £75 | £225 with print | Portfolio Edition price upon request
Pre-Order Available from September 2018
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“We pass by these totems, each day, in our quest for the exciting and the novel, and ignore the works that tell most unexpectedly of the conditions of modern life” - John Taylor, 1979
“Many of Myers’ images also bespeak his fascination, inspired by Cubism, with the shallow ‘box lid’ of space between the foreground and the depths of the image. The Sub Stations are dropped like monoliths into this space. Neither distant enough to merge with the landscape, nor close enough to allow detailed scrutiny, they inhabit the middle ground like cumbersome Minimalist sculptures.” – Eugenie Shinkle
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I look at them and see the 70's my body remembers" - Grayson Perry
“the ‘Landscapes without Incident, are as empty as the title promises. But it is not entirely a pure emptiness, for all the pictures show spaces about to be occupied or quitted” – Ian Jeffrey
