Adam Cooper
Custodian of the Michael Cooper estate and archive
Adam (pictured above with Michael) was eight years old when his father died. In a short but extremely productive career, Michael shot landmark album covers for The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, but there was a lot more to his oeuvre – he bequeathed an extraordinarily intimate record of the excitement and creativity of the London scene in the Swinging Sixties.
Michael was drawn towards film-making and scriptwriting later in his career, alongside another project: publishing a book of his photography. He conceived this as a book of photographs with contributions from the subjects of the images, and it was to be called Blinds & Shutters.
With a little help from Michael’s friends, Adam realised his father’s wishes in 1990, when the book was published as a numbered limited edition by Genesis Publications.
Film camera technician Adam Cooper has enjoyed a successful career in the movie industry, having worked on 42 feature films, plus numerous documentaries, adverts and music videos. In his spare time and downtime from the movies, his other job is custodian and curator of the Michael Cooper archive, a collection of images produced between the early 1960s and 1973, until the photographer’s death at the age of 34.
Thanks to his close relationship with The Rolling Stones and The Beatles,
