Joan Myers


Joan Myers is a fine art photographer best known for her images of Antarctica and the American West. She has also photographed the Japanese Relocation Camp from the 1940s, the Spanish pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, India wildlife, women as they age, and the extremes of ice and fire such as glaciers and volcanoes. She currently lives in northern New Mexico.

Biography

Myers earned a masters in musicology from Stanford University in 1967 with a concentration on Renaissance and baroque music performance. In the early 1970s she turned to photography. She began as a large-format platinum-palladium printer and now shoots and prints digitally.
Her work has been exhibited in over 50 one-person shows and is in more than 30 public collections including: The Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman House, the National Gallery of Art, Amon Carter Museum, the University of New Mexico, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Photographic Art, and the Center for Creative Photography.
In 2002, the National Science Foundation awarded Joan Myers an Antarctic Artists and Writer’s Grant to photograph at McMurdo Station, surrounding field stations, historic huts, and the South Pole during the 2002-2003 austral summer. Joan Myers' work is published in eleven books with contributors including Lucy Lippard and William DeBuys.

Books

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