
The Works
- Publisher
- RRB Photobooks
- Year
- 2018
- Specifications
- Slipcase containing the three RRB Photobooks John Myers titles: The Portraits, Looking at the Overlooked and The End of Industry
Each copy includes three signed and dated 5x4" silver-gelatin prints, in unlimited edition: 'Giraffe' (from The Portraits), 'The Bed' (from Looking at the Overlooked) and 'Bricks Drying, William Mobberley Brickworks, Kingswinford' (from The End of Industry)
Each print is signed and dated to the verso
Each of the books in the slipcase is the same number from within the edition
Individual books also available separately in both standard and special editions while stocks last
The Works gathers in one slipcase John Myers's three publications with RRB Photobooks: The Portraits, Looking at the Overlooked, and The End of Industry. The Portraits, shot throughout the seventies in the West Midlands, shows the people of Myers's native Stourbridge and its surrounds; understated yet slightly discomfiting, these images have cemented Myers's position as a revolutionary within British photographic tradition. Looking at the Overlooked describes a way of encountering the world: the photographs, all taken within walking distance of Myers's home, 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 End of Industry completes the trilogy, recording the rapid deindustrialisation of the Black Country across the eighties as factories, foundries, forges and steelworks were transformed into retail parks and housing. Myers's document of this irreversible change is all the more poignant as Britain's industries and identities are once again in such a period of change. The Works contains each of the books, along with three signed silver-gelatin prints—one from each volume—and is a collector's-edition format providing access to the trilogy together.