Michael Cooper

Blinds & Shutters is a limited-edition Genesis Publications book containing Michael Cooper’s superb photographs of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

• Michael Cooper (English).
• Contains forewords by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and an introduction by Terry Southern. 
• Prepared in consultation with Bill Wyman.
• United Kingdom: Genesis Publications / Hedley, 1990.
• There are over 600 images in total. 
• This is No. 4, 333 of 5,000 limited-edition copies and has been hand-signed by Peter Blake, Jenny Boyd, Eric Clapton, Adam Cooper, Spencer Davis, Terry Doran, Jann Haworth, Allen Jones, Anita Pallenberg and Bill Wyman.
• There are approximately 90 contributors including, among others, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Neil Aspinall, Derek Taylor, Terry Doran, John Dunbar, Colin Self, Peter Blake, Jann Haworth, Jenny Boyd, Richard Hamilton, Robert Fraser, Marianne Faithfull, Klaus Voormann, Astrid Kirchherr, Anita Pallenburg, Ian Stewart, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
• The book is fully bound in leather and buckram.

Blinds & Shutters provides a unique insider’s view of the sixties, a prolific and exhilarating period of artistic cross-fertilization. Through his association with Robert Fraser, The Stones and The Beatles, Michael met the artists, writers, poets and musicians of the time and the courtiers around them. He introduced these people to each other. Many of those who brilliantly lit up the decade on both sides of the Atlantic were photographed by Michael. His most well-known photographic assignment was the album cover for The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.