Blinds & Shutters
BLINDS AND SHUTTERS:
by
Michael Cooper , Brian Roylance(editor)
The Photography of Michael Cooper
Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom:
Genesis Publications,
1990 Full-Leather. Fine/None, as Issued.
First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
Limited Edition. of 5000 copies. 368 pages 14" x 10" Hardcover.
Beautiful handsewn leather/buckram binding in yellow and black in a matching solander box.
Box has original unpublished Michael Cooper photo inset into it.
Signed by 11 contributors: Billy Al Bengston, Jenny Boyd, Peter Blake, Terry Doran, John Irvin, Adam Cooper, Gavin Lambert, Perry Richardson, Nicholas Monro, Colin Self, & Bill Wyman.
Chronicles Cooper's work with the Rolling Stones including creating the Satanic Majesty's Request cover, the Beatles including the Sgt. Pepper cover, and many candid photos of them and other members of the 1960s Art, Music, and literary scenes.
Highlighted with beautiful design and typography including pages of printed acetate, psychedelic designs, etc., along with otherwise unavailable written memoires of seminal period figures including: William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Larry Rivers, Andy Warhol, George Harrison, Paul Mcartney, Klaus Voormann, Terry Southern................
Photographs by Michael Cooper
Forewords by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Introduction by Terry Southern
Consultancy by Bill Wyman
Blinds & Shutters is the result of five years' international research and close collaboration with 93 contributors. It is a mind-expanding journey through the 60s, and has been internationally acclaimed as the definitive cult chronicle of that decade.
Each Solander box incorporates a sliding blind under which is an individual photographic print unique to each copy.
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