Bert Myers Art

Bert Myers is a retired academic physician who has had a serious interest in photography as an art medium. He has an interest in holography and X-ray art. In 1971, he studied with Ansel Adams in California. Myers has also been a pupil of Michael A. Smith of Ottsville, Pennsylvania. He began experimenting with using X ray as an art medium in 1978 and ended up developing a technique of taking radiographs of flowers, shells, and other objects and making black-and-white positive prints of them. The technique is difficult and is not widely used. Since 1986 he has been using Cibachrome techniques to make radiographic images in color, including montages of straight photo images with x-rays. From 1987-1997, Myers became interested in holography so he took courses in the subject at Jeffrey Murray at the Holography Institute in Petaluma, California and at Lake Forest College in Illinois. After that he started the Holography research Laboratory at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and pursued the uses of holography in medicine. He has developed techniques of making 3D images of medical models, bones, and human tissue which had been preserved by plastination. Myers has showed his work in galleries in Hungary Scotland, and the United States of America. He was aiming at making a medical text illustrated with holograms but this did not succeed because holography did not progress. AGFA, the main producer of high quality holographic films and plates discontinued production in 1997 forcing Bert to abandon holography and concentrating his work in conventional photography. Framed Bert Myers art is currently available in many institutions both public and private.