Art Myers
Art Myers is a fine-art photographer and physician specializing in preventive medicine and public health. He lives in San Francisco.
— From March 2000
Photography
Photographs By Art Myers
I am still haunted by the memory of the phone call from my mother telling me in a trembling voice that my sister Joanne, still in her thirties, had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Following a prolonged, heroic battle to survive, she was eventually to die from that disease. Two decades later, I anxiously faced a surgeon in an antiseptic hospital waiting room as he uttered the dreaded words “Your wife has breast cancer.”
March 2000
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