David Myers (cinematographer)
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David Myers (May 8, 1914, Auburn, New York–August 26, 2004, Mill Valley, California, USA) was an American photographer and cinematographer known for his documentaries on popular music and musicians.
Myers was born on May 8, 1914, in Auburn, New York. When he was 15, the New York Times paid him $15 for a shot of a fire in Greenwich. After being inspired by photographer Walker Evans' work at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1938, David also worked for the Farm Security Administration[1][2] while studying at Antioch College. His FSA pictures were included in Just Before the War, an exhibition in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress shown on the Gallery of the Main Library February 14–March 30, 1969.[3]
During World War II, a conscientious objector, Myers was conscripted to the U.S. Forest Service and photographed patients of a mental hospital in Spokane, Washington. After the war, he attended the California School of Fine Arts which was then staffed by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Lisette Model, and Edward Weston.[4][5] His gritty portrait of a heavily laden and exhausted farm boy was featured in Edward Steichen’s 1955 exhibition The Family of Man for the Museum of Modern Art and was graced by 9 million visitors worldwide.[6]
