Bert Myers is a retired professor of surgery. He has an interest in x-ray and holography art and has produced many images of objects which are colored and mounted. Even though he worked as an academic physician, he had serious interest in art. At the beginning of 1951, he worked with a N.O. photographer called Eugene Delcroix who specialized in soft focus images and was a master of composition and light. Bert studied with Ansel Adams in 1971 in California, and has also studied under Michael A. Smith of Ottsville, Pennsylvania. He participated in a Santa Fe workshop on digital photography in 1999.
In 1976, Myers held his first one man show at the Gallery Studio 8 in New Orleans. Most of the images in that composition were scenic in the Adams tradition. Two years later, he began experimenting with x-ray as an art medium and developed the technique of taking radiographs of flowers, shells and other objects, and made black-and-white positive prints of them. The technique he uses is not original and is quite difficult and therefore not widely used. Myers wrote an article describing the technique and some other articles about his methods. The first article was published in Applied Radiology while the other articles have appeared in the Free University in N.O., in Medical World News, and in Art Center. For nine years, Myers taught a course in advanced darkroom techniques in the Univ. College of Tulane University. Myers has been using Cibachrome techniques to make radiographic images in color; including montages of straight photo images with x-rays since 1986. Beginning in 1985 he worked with high contrast internegatives and has a large collection of line solarizations and derivations, mainly of historic buildings.
