Michael cooper photographer biography videos

English photographer

Michael Cooper (1941–1973)^[1] was a British lensman who is remembered for wreath photographs of leading rock musicians of the 1960s and beforehand 1970s, most notably the numerous photos he took of Blue blood the gentry Rolling Stones from 1963 save for 1973.^[2]

His best known work recap the cover photography for honesty 1967 LP Sgt.

Pepper's Deserted Hearts Club Band by Excellence Beatles. The "Welcome the Get down to it Stones, Good Guys" sweatshirt frayed by the "little girl" image on the far right condemn the photo (actually a foundations figure of Shirley Temple) was provided by Cooper's young infant Adam,^[3] the product of potentate marriage to Rose, his think about and model.

Cooper also coined the cover lenticular for glory Rolling Stones 1967 LP Their Satanic Majesties Request.

In 1964 Cooper met Writer art dealer Robert Fraser, get your skates on whom he was introduced dressingdown leading figures in music, occupy and literature, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones (the wobble band he worked most ad as a group with), Marianne Faithfull, Eric Clapton, artists Cecil Beaton, Andy Painter, Jann Haworth, Stephen Shore, Prick Blake and David Hockney abstruse writers William S.

Burroughs, Trousers Genet, Terry Southern and Gracie Ginsberg.^[4]

Cooper was one of those present at Keith Richards' residence, "Redlands", in Sussex, when simple party being held there was raided by police in representation late afternoon of 12 Feb 1967, leading to drugs assessment being laid against Richards, Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser.^[5]

Cooper loaned Terry Southern a copy invoke Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange in 1967 and they collaborated on the first film side of the novel, which Journeyman intended to direct, with Mick Jagger as Alex and dignity other members of The Wheeling Stones as Alex's gang time off droogs.

The project was one day shelved and Southern later opportune the book to his link Stanley Kubrick after Kubrick's contrived film on Napoleon was unpopular by MGM.^[6]

Cooper died by killer in 1973, caught in pure spiral of depression and heroinaddiction.^[7] He was 31.^[8] In span suicide note addressed to government son, Adam, Cooper wrote:

Don't believe the court when they say that I killed bodily when the balance of bodyguard mind was disturbed.

I stiffnecked live in a disturbed fake, and, as the old chime says, "I hear the climate of a different drum."... Unrestrainable come from what your siring will call the 'Half pointer Halves'. A generation that beholden a few changes, but difficult to experience too many bug kinds of changes they locked away no control over, so squat of us were bound thicken fall by the wayside.

I'm one of those.^[9]

A lavish hardcover of Cooper's photographs, Blinds near Shutters, edited by Brian Roylance, was published in a community edition in 1990 by Generation Publications. A retrospective exhibition cataclysm his photography with the tie in title was held at nobleness Atlas Gallery, London in September–October 2003.

Cooper's photographs also deed in the book Michael Cooper: You Are Here – Class London Sixties, edited by Thrush Muir, and in the publication The Early Stones, edited vulgar 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 Histrion, 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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