Travelling crane, Bathurst Basin 1978Shot along Bristol's harbourside between 1978 and 1983, The Harbour chronicles a period of significant change for the city which reflects the wider experience of loss and regeneration in Britain at the time. After centuries during which the harbour was a central hub of the commerce of the city and great generator of its wealth, through fair and foul means, they had largely fallen silent. The end of that working life in the late sixties to the mid

DEREK JARMAN

– Mark Cocker from the book’s essay

the Viking Landers were the first to land on planet Mars

the passage of a single dawn or a long drawn out winter

Tabacalera (Madrid) and Fundacion Seoane (Coruña)

these new images adding visual context to Myers’ words

His work is characterised by a quiet observation and singular insight

in parallel to his more widely-seen photographs depicting urban working class life in his native Liverpool

Who can make it and how

Mr Wallis and Mr Foster

has worked alongside photographers Geoff Weston and Alan Thoburn to search through his archives of unprinted negatives to revisit the work and bring it to a new audience

His vantage point removed him from the immediacy of the street and he developed his distinctive graphic framing of the buildings and landscapes which reveal the layers of urban and social history