Thomas Joshua
Cooper is an American photographer. He is considered 'amongst the
premier contemporary landscape photographers'.
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."
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."
Not only a
photographer, Cooper is a poet and has written haiku books. Most of them are
inspired by nature and reflect his photography.
He currently resides
in Glasgow, Scotland, where he founded the Fine Art Photography Department
at the Glasgow School of Art in 1982. He is now a senior
researcher in the faculty of Fine Art, holding a Professorial role and Head of
Department. He is married to Catherine Alice Mooney and together they have
two daughters, Laura Indigo Cooper and Sophie Alice Cooper.
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