Thomas Joshua Cooper

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Thomas Joshua Cooper (born 1946 in San Francisco ) is an American wildlife photographer, senior researcher and professor of fine art who lives in Glasgow , Scotland .

Live and act

Cooper comes from the Cherokee Nation on his father's side and grew up on Indian reservations in the western United States. In 1969 he graduated from Humboldt State University with a Bachelor of Arts in art, philosophy and literature. In 1972 he made his Master of Arts at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. In the early 1970s he moved to Glasgow, United Kingdom, where he worked at the Glasgow School of Art and founded the Photography Department in 1982.

His works have been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries around the world or are permanently in public and private collections as well as several museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago , the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Arts Council of England or the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. For his nature photographs, Cooper uses an Agfa field camera from 1898, which has to be equipped with photo plates .

Exhibitions

Cooper's works have been shown in numerous solo exhibitions in Europe and America since 1971

  • 2001: an exhibition on St. Ives at the Tate in London
  • 2003: Fortunate Islands. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
  • 2004: Texas Gallery , Houston, Texas.
  • 2004 and 2013: Haunch of Venison Gallery in London

Awards

  • 1970: John D. Phelan Award in Art and Literature
  • 1978: National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellow in Washington, DC
  • 1994: Major Artists Award from the Scottish Arts Council in Edinburgh
  • 1999: Major Artist's Award, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • 2005: Scottish Arts Council and National Lottery's Creative Scotland Award
  • 2009: Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in Field of Study: Photography
  • 2012: Awarded Royal Scottish Academician

Publications (selection)

literature

  • Thomas Joshua Cooper: point of no return. Haunch of Venison, London 2004, ISBN 0-9540671-9-3 .
  • Thomas Joshua Cooper (b.1946), Cherokee Photographer . In: Deborah Everett, Elayne Zorn (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Native American Artists (=  Artists of the American Mosaic. ). Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 2008, ISBN 978-0-313-33762-8 , pp. 27 ff .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thomas Joshua Cooper. Widewalls, accessed October 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Joshua Cooper: Shoshone Falls - About the Artist. Radius Books, accessed October 27, 2017 (American English).
  3. ↑ Thomas Joshua Cooper. Bella Bathurst, 2015, accessed October 27, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Maev Kennedy: Arts: Thomas Joshua Cooper . In: The Guardian . 2001 ( theguardian.com ).
  5. ^ Thomas Joshua Cooper - Exhibitions. Sean Kelly Gallery, 2003, accessed October 27, 2017 .
  6. ^ Haunch of Venison: Thomas Joshua Cooper. Vimeo, 2013, accessed October 27, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b Thomas Joshua Cooper . In: Prix ​​Pictet . tape 1 . teNeues, Kempen / New York / Orléans 2008, ISBN 978-3-8327-9289-3 ( books.google.de ).
  8. ↑ Thomas Joshua Cooper. Lannan Foundation, accessed October 27, 2017 (American English).
  9. ^ Thomas Joshua Cooper wins 2005 Creative Scotland Award. Ingleby Gallery, 2005, accessed October 27, 2017 (American English).
  10. ↑ Thomas Joshua Cooper on gf.org.
  11. ^ Thomas Joshua Cooper - The global award in photography and sustainability. prixpictet.com, accessed October 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Thomas Joshua
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cooper, Thomas J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wildlife photographer, senior researcher and professor of fine art
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco