Blinds & Shutters: Icons of the Sixties Signed by Burroughs or Ginsberg

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Blinds & Shutters: Icons of the Sixties Signed by Burroughs or Ginsberg

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Author: Michael Cooper
Format: Craft Bound
Publication date: 01/08/2019
Imprint: Genesis Publications
ISBN: BS3

Contributors: 93 of the most influential artists, writers and musicians of the Sixties.
Signed by: 9+ contributors including William Burroughs OR Allen Ginsberg
Limited edition: 2500 in the edition, less than 190 signed by literary giants of the beat generation William Burroughs or Allen Ginsberg.
Binding: Quarter bound in leather and presented in a 30th anniversary slipcase.
Extras: Forewords by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards; Introduction by Terry Southern; Consultancy by Bill Wyman

The Sixties was a prolific and exhilarating period of artistic cross-fertilization. For the first time in Britain the class barriers were really down; everyone seemed to know everyone. Through his association with London’s influential art dealer Robert Fraser, the Rolling Stones and The Beatles, Michael Cooper met the artists, writers, poets and musicians of the time as well as the courtiers surrounding them. Many of those who brilliantly lit up the decade on both sides of the Atlantic were photographed by him. He lived the life of his subjects and they trusted him, revealing themselves to him in all their power and their humanity.

The informality and intimacy of these portraits make these pictures incredibly candid, often funny and sometimes sad. Each seems to be the perfect evocation of an era that changed the world forever. Most of Michael’s photos are a reportage of what he and his famous friends happened to be doing that day, but there are also the famous commissioned photographs: the Sgt. Pepper’s album cover was set up in his studio and he travelled to New York with the Stones to mastermind the Satanic Majesties’ Request album cover. Remarkable out-takes from these two sessions are published in Blinds & Shutters.

Blinds & Shutters is the story of the Sixties, a cult classic and a publishing benchmark. It is quite simply our most famous book and widely regarded as the cornerstone of any rock’n’roll library.

Now, 30 years after the first copies were produced and to celebrate 45 years in publishing, Genesis is releasing the final 600 copies in the edition, presented in a special anniversary binding.

With over 600 photographs and a 30,000-word text from 93 legendary contributors, Blinds & Shutters is not only a unique insiders view of the Sixties through the lens of photographer Michael Cooper, it is the defining record of an era, as told by those who were at its centre. From musicians such as Eric Clapton and George Harrison, to artists Andy Warhol and David Hockney, to writers William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, the list of contributors to Blinds & Shutters is nothing short of awe-inspiring.

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Dimensions 370 × 260 mm

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