John myers

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

“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.”

Michael Meyers from Halloween Movie "Don't I get your ghost Bob?"

Halloween II.

Nick Castle in Halloween (1978)

Michael Myers - Halloween

Nick Castle recreates his 1978 joke on the set of "Halloween", 2018. Castle played Michael Myers in the original 1978 movie - he acted as Myers in one scene of this remake with James Jude Courtney doing the rest of the action.

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