John Myers’ remarkable and little-known landscape and portrait photography from the 1970s has recently started to attract critical and international attention after a sparse exhibition and publishing history between 1972 and 2011.

Myers’ black and white photographs record the trappings of life in the suburban West Midlands housing developments of the 1970s. Landscape in its broadest term describes his documentation of this environment - blocks of flats, cul-de-sacs, garages, electricity substations. The interiors, fashions and sculptural qualities of the period are recorded in his series on television sets, furniture and in portraits of everyday people in their domestic setting, sitting on their sofas or standing in backyards, staring unsmiling at the camera.

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Photo Credit: © John Myers, Tye Gardens, 1973