Bret Myers is an academic physician by profession - Professor of Surgery at LSUMC. He has a strong interest in photography and has been involved in art medium for many years. Beginning in 1951, he worked with Eugene Delacroix, a master of light and composition. In 1971, Myers studied with Ansel Adams in California - one of Adams' last courses. Myers' first one-person show in 1976 at the G
...see more »allery Studio 8 in New Orleans was comprised mostly of scenic images in Adams' tradition. In 1978, he began exploring x-ray as an art medium, taking radiographs of shells, flowers and other objects and making black and white positive prints of them. Myers' articles describing the technique were published in Applied Radiology and articles about his methods have appeared in Medical World News, Art Voices and Reader's Digest, among other institutions. He has taught advanced darkroom techniques at the University College of Tulane University for over ten years. In 1987, he became interested in holography, pursuing uses in medicine and education, with a goal to make a medical text illustrated with holograms. Myers has been internationally recognized for his work; he abandoned holography in 1997 due to funding constraints to concentrate on photography, especially using digital technology to make color prints of x-ray images.« see less
Sue J. of Iowa says:
"Hello. The framed print arrived and I like it very much. Nice job on the matting. It is beautiful. Thank you, Suzanne"