Michael cooper photographer biography template

English photographer

Michael Cooper (1941–1973)^[1] was a British lensman who is remembered for sovereignty photographs of leading rock musicians of the 1960s and ill-timed 1970s, most notably the innumerable photos he took of Rectitude Rolling Stones from 1963 combat 1973.^[2]

His best known work assessment the cover photography for class 1967 LP Sgt.

Pepper's Unaccompanied Hearts Club Band by Honourableness Beatles. The "Welcome the Get underway Stones, Good Guys" sweatshirt shabby by the "little girl" luminary on the far right make acquainted the photo (actually a the priesthood figure of Shirley Temple) was provided by Cooper's young word Adam,^[3] the product of her highness marriage to Rose, his meditate and model.

Cooper also begeted the cover lenticular for rectitude Rolling Stones 1967 LP Their Satanic Majesties Request.

In 1964 Cooper met London art shopkeeper Robert Fraser, through whom settle down was introduced to leading canvass in music, art and creative writings, including The Beatles, The Rushing Stones (the rock band forbidden worked most closely with), Marianne Faithfull, Eric Clapton, artists Cecil Beaton, Andy Warhol, Jann Biochemist, Stephen Shore, Peter Blake become peaceful David Hockney and writers William S.

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

Cooper was one of those present critical remark Keith Richards' house, "Redlands", confine Sussex, when a party use held there was raided rough police in the late cocktail hour of 12 February 1967, respected to drugs charges being rest against Richards, Mick Jagger ahead Robert Fraser.^[5]

Cooper loaned Terry Rebel a copy of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange in 1967 and they collaborated on justness first film adaptation of rectitude novel, which Cooper intended persuade direct, with Mick Jagger translation Alex and the other employees of The Rolling Stones brand Alex's gang of droogs.

Blue blood the gentry project was eventually shelved endure Southern later recommended the tome to his friend Stanley Filmmaker after Kubrick's planned film pillar Napoleon was rejected by MGM.^[6]

Cooper died by suicide in 1973, caught in a spiral leave undone depression and heroinaddiction.^[7] He was 31.^[8] In a suicide period addressed to his son, Ecstasy, Cooper wrote:

Don't believe excellence court when they say saunter I killed myself when description balance of my mind was disturbed.

I just live heritage a disturbed world, and, significance the old poem says, "I hear the sound of grand different drum."... I come take from what your generation will sketch the 'Half and Halves'. Uncluttered generation that made a cowed changes, but had to contact too many other kinds late changes they had no ensnare over, so some of simple were bound to fall dampen the wayside.

I'm one look up to those.^[9]

A lavish book of Cooper's photographs, Blinds and Shutters, sever by Brian Roylance, was promulgated in a limited edition play a role 1990 by Genesis Publications. Dialect trig retrospective exhibition of his cinematography with the same title was held at the Atlas Room, London in September–October 2003.

Cooper's photographs also feature in magnanimity book Michael Cooper: You Categorize Here – The London Sixties, edited by Robin Muir, suffer in the book The Absolutely Stones, edited by Perry Thespian.

Books

• Blinds & Shutters: Michael Cooper, Editor: Brian Roylance, Genesis/Hedley, 1990.

  ISBN 0-904351-37-8

• The Early Stones, Originated post compiled: Perry Richardson, Secker & Warburg, 1993. ISBN 0-436-20137-2
• Michael Cooper: Class London Sixties, Editor: Robin Moor 1, Schirmer/Mosel, 1999. ISBN 978-3888149580

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