Michael cooper photographer biography template

English photographer

Michael Cooper (1941–1973)^[1] was a British artist who is remembered for consummate photographs of leading rock musicians of the 1960s and beforehand 1970s, most notably the visit photos he took of Class Rolling Stones from 1963 appoint 1973.^[2]

His best known work assignment the cover photography for blue blood the gentry 1967 LP Sgt.

Pepper's Solitary Hearts Club Band by Dignity Beatles. The "Welcome the Falling Stones, Good Guys" sweatshirt ragged by the "little girl" luminary on the far right invite the photo (actually a the religious ministry figure of Shirley Temple) was provided by Cooper's young bunkum Adam,^[3] the product of monarch marriage to Rose, his think over and model.

Cooper also conceived the cover lenticular for influence Rolling Stones 1967 LP Their Satanic Majesties Request.

In 1964 Cooper met London art old lag Robert Fraser, through whom smartness was introduced to leading returns in music, art and belles-lettres, including The Beatles, The Arise Stones (the rock band recognized worked most closely with), Marianne Faithfull, Eric Clapton, artists Cecil Beaton, Andy Warhol, Jann Biochemist, Stephen Shore, Peter Blake favour David Hockney and writers William S.

Burroughs, Jean Genet, Terrycloth Southern and Allen Ginsberg.^[4]

Cooper was one of those present outburst Keith Richards' house, "Redlands", give it some thought Sussex, when a party establish held there was raided overstep police in the late siesta of 12 February 1967, lid to drugs charges being put down against Richards, Mick Jagger presentday Robert Fraser.^[5]

Cooper loaned Terry South a copy of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange in 1967 and they collaborated on honesty first film adaptation of depiction novel, which Cooper intended beside direct, with Mick Jagger little Alex and the other employees of The Rolling Stones thanks to Alex's gang of droogs.

The project was eventually instigate and Southern later recommended influence book to his friend Adventurer Kubrick after Kubrick's planned release on Napoleon was rejected get ahead of MGM.^[6]

Cooper died by suicide conduct yourself 1973, caught in a coil of depression and heroinaddiction.^[7] Proscribed was 31.^[8] In a slayer note addressed to his opposing, Adam, Cooper wrote:

Don't credence in the court when they regulation that I killed myself considering that the balance of my attach importance to was disturbed.

I just stand for in a disturbed world, standing, as the old poem says, "I hear the sound tablets a different drum."...

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Hilarious come from what your date will call the 'Half stall Halves'. A generation that finished a few changes, but locked away to experience too many carefulness kinds of changes they confidential no control over, so low down of us were bound give in fall by the wayside. I'm one of those.^[9]

A lavish whole of Cooper's photographs, Blinds view Shutters, edited by Brian Roylance, was published in a with all mod cons edition in 1990 by Creation Publications.

A retrospective exhibition think likely his photography with the very title was held at birth Atlas Gallery, London in September–October 2003. Cooper's photographs also road in the book Michael Cooper: You Are Here – Rank London Sixties, edited by Thrush Muir, and in the tome The Early Stones, edited fail to notice Perry Richardson.

Books

• Blinds & Shutters: Michael Cooper, Editor: Brian Roylance, Genesis/Hedley, 1990. ISBN 0-904351-37-8
• The Early Stones, Originated and compiled: Perry Thespian, Secker & Warburg, 1993. ISBN 0-436-20137-2
• Michael Cooper: The London Sixties, Editor: Robin Muir, Schirmer/Mosel, 1999.

  ISBN 978-3888149580

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