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マイケル・クーパー | |
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 ロイヤル・コンセルトヘボウのマイケル・クーパー 1967年9月1日 | |
| 生誕 | 1941 |
| 死没 | 1973 (31歳) |
| 国籍 | イギリス |
| 著名な実績 | ミュージシャン写真家 |
マイケル・クーパー (1941–1973) は 1960年代から1970年代初頭にかけて、著名なロックミュージシャンの写真を多く撮ったイギリス人の写真。6特に10年代半ばロにはーリング・ストーンズな大のを撮っ多く手掛けたた
His best known work is the cover photography for the 1967 LP Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles. The "Welcome the Rolling Stones, Good Guys" sweatshirt worn by the "little girl" figure on the far right of the photo (actually a cloth figure of Shirley Temple) was provided by Cooper's young son Adam,[1] the product of his marriage to Rose, his muse and model. Cooper also created the cover lenticular for the Rolling Stones 1967 LP Their Satanic Majesties Request.
In 1964 Cooper met London art dealer Robert Fraser, through whom he was introduced to leading figures in music, art and literature, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones (the rock band he worked most closely with), Marianne Faithfull, Eric Clapton, artists Cecil Beaton, Andy Warhol, Jann Haworth, Peter Blake and David Hockney and writers William S. Burroughs, Jean Genet, Terry Southern and Allen Ginsberg.[2]
Cooper was one of those present at Keith Richards' house, "Redlands", in Sussex, when a party being held there was raided by police in the late afternoon of 12 February 1967, leading to drugs charges being laid against Richards, Mick Jagger and Robert Fraser.[3]
Cooper loaned Terry Southern a copy of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange in 1967 and they collaborated on the first film adaptation of the novel, which Cooper intended to direct, with Mick Jagger as Alex and the other members of The Rolling Stones as Alex's gang of droogs. The project was eventually shelved after the screenplay was returned (unread) by Britain's Lord Chamberlain, with a note indicating that he would not allow the film to be made because it dealt with "youthful incitement".[要出典] Southern later recommended the book to his friend Stanley Kubrick after Kubrick's planned film on Napoleon was rejected by MGM.[4]
Cooper committed suicide 1973, caught in a spiral of depression and heroin addiction.[5] He was 31.[6] In a suicide note addressed to his son, Adam, Cooper wrote:
Don't believe the court when they say that I killed myself when the balance of my mind was disturbed. I just live in a disturbed world, and, as the old poem says, "I hear the sound of a different drum."... I come from what your generation will call the 'Half and Halves'. A generation that made a few changes, but had to experience too many other kinds of changes they had no control over, so some of us were bound to fall by the wayside. I'm one of those.[7]
A lavish book of Cooper's photographs, Blinds and Shutters, edited by Brian Roylance, was published in a limited edition in 1990 by Genesis Publications. A retrospective exhibition of his photography with the same title was held at the Atlas Gallery, London in September–October 2003. Cooper's photographs also feature in the book Michael Cooper: You Are Here – The London Sixties, edited by Robin Muir, and in the book The Early Stones, edited by Perry Richardson.
Books
[編集]- Blinds & Shutters: Michael Cooper, Editor: Brian Roylance, Genesis/Hedley, 1990. ISBN 0-904351-37-8
- The Early Stones, Originated and compiled: Perry Richardson, Secker & Warburg, 1993. ISBN 0-436-20137-2
- Michael Cooper: The London Sixties, Editor: Robin Muir, Schirmer/Mosel, 1999. ISBN 978-3888149580
References
[編集]- ^ "Norwegian Wood" Beatles Fan Club of Norway website
- ^ Robin Muir – "No Stone Unturned" – The Independent, 7 September 2003 [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20030907/ai_n12742588
- ^ "Redlands Bust" website
- ^ Lee Hill – A Grand Guy: The Life and Art of Terry Southern (Bloomsbury, 2002), p.149
- ^ Muir, Michael Cooper: The London Sixties, 1999, p. 3
- ^ “Michael Cooper”. New York: 127. (October 30, 1989).
- ^ Roylance, Blinds & Shutters: Michael Cooper, 1990, p.18