Thomas Joshua Cooper
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Thomas Joshua Cooper (born 1946, San Francisco) is an American photographer of Cherokee descent. He is considered amongst the premier contemporary landscape photographers.[1]
Cooper received his bachelor’s degree from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California in 1969. In 1972, he received his master’s in photography from the University of New Mexico.[2]
Cooper was inspired by the works of the photographers of the f/64 group of the 1930s and 1940s, such as Ansel Adams. Cooper states, "I'll live and die by the late works of Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand, and I think Robert Frank is the most extraordinary living photographic picture-maker."[3]
Cooper loves being a photographer, but is frustrated by some of the vocabulary that is used in the field. He indicates, "I hate the words "snap", "shoot" and "take" when it comes to making photographs. Everything I do is very seriously built up. They are 'made' pictures."[3]
Not only a photographer, Cooper is a poet and has written a few Haiku books. Most of them are inspired by nature and really reflect his camera work, e.g. About water, trees, the world and sometimes even animals.
Cooper travels all over the world, discovering and exploring places people only dream of going. He has discovered recently named 3 places on the map- Catherine Rock, LISA Island and Landout point. these places will be marked in 2009s new maps.[citation needed]
He currently resides in Glasgow, Scotland, where he founded the Fine Art Photography Department at the world-renowned Glasgow School of Art in 1982.[citation needed] He is now a senior researcher in the faculty of Fine Art, holding a Professorial role and Head of Department.[4] He is married to Catherine Alice Mooney and together they have two daughters, Laura Indigo Cooper and Sophie Alice Cooper. Cooper has remarried and has two sons: Harry Blue Cooper and Josh Lewis Cooper.
In 2009 Cooper achieved a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography.[5]
He is represented by The Pace Gallery, New York.
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[edit] Awards
- 1970, John D. Phelen Award in Art and Literature .[2]
- 1994, Major Artists Award, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland[citation needed]
- 1999, Major Artist’s Award, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico[citation needed]
[edit] Museums
Cooper’s works are held by over fifty[6] museums and public collections, among them:[1]
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Denver Art Museum, Denver Colorado[7]
- The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, Texas
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California
- Carré d'Art (Nîmes Museum of Contemporary Art), Nîmes, France
- Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
- The Tate Gallery, London, England
- The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Everett, Deborah (2008) "Thomas Joshua Cooper (b. 1946), Cherokee Photographer" pp. 27-29 In Everett, Deborah and Zorn, Elayne (2008) Encyclopedia of Native American Artists Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, page 27, ISBN 978-0-313-33762-8
- ^ a b "Thomas Joshua Cooper" John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation biography
- ^ a b Benedictus, Leo (28 August 2008) "Thomas Joshua Cooper's best shot" The Guardian, an interview in the "My Best Shot" series
- ^ "Staff Profile: Prof. Thomas J. COOPER". Glasgow School of Art. http://www.gsa.ac.uk/gsa.cfm?pid=104&sid=62. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
- ^ "Thomas Joshua Cooper". Guggenheim Foundation. http://www.gf.org/fellows/16515-thomas-joshua-cooper. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
- ^ "About Thomas Joshua Cooper" Pace Wildenstein Gallery
- ^ Arnest, Mark (30 June 2002) "Denver Art Museum exhibit gives full exposure to rise of photography" The Gazette (Colorado Springs)
[edit] Further reading
- Cotter, Holland (28 June 1996) "Art in Review; Thomas Joshua Cooper" The New York Times
- Cullen, Fintan and Morrison, John (editors) (2005) "A Shared Legacy: Essays on Irish and Scottish Art and Visual Culture Ashgate, Aldershot, Hants, England, ISBN 0-7546-0644-9
- Yau, John (2006) Ojo de agua - Thomas Joshua Cooper(Exhibition Ojo de Agua - Eye of the Water, at Pace Wildenstein, 1 December 2006 - 13 January 2007) Pace Wildenstein Publications, New York, ISBN 1-930743-63-7
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In a way, he was a strong teacher in his deepness and weakness as teacher. A good day! Improving of this quotation: Cooper loves being a photographer, but is frustrated by some of the vocabulary that is used in the field. He indicates, "I hate the words "snap", "shoot" and "take" when it comes to making photographs. Everything I do is very seriously built up. They are 'made' pictures."
Improvisation: Thomas Joshua Cooper wants and wanted to be a photographer for his whole life. Cooper avoids some of the vocabulary that is used in the field: "snap", "shoot" and "take" when it comes to making photographs. He indicates: "Everything I do is very seriously built up. They are 'made' pictures." Although you do not see immediately, that his pictures made up, because you need to have time to look at these images longer.
In a way, he was a strong teacher in his deepness and weakness as teacher. A good day!
