Collection: Michael Cooper

b.1941 - d.1973

Born in 1941, Michael Cooper first met London’s influential art dealer Robert Fraser in 1964. Through Fraser he was quickly immersed in the heady world of the Swinging London scene including the many noted artists, writers, poets, models, and musicians of the day. He became particularly close with The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, for whom his most famous works were produced.

An intimate of The Rolling Stones during the band’s earliest years, Michael Cooper chronicled the group’s rise from the blues clubs of London to international stardom. Referred to as the band’s “court photographer” from 1963 until his untimely death in 1973, Cooper at one point lived with Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg, cultivating the sort of comradeship that allowed him to capture some of the most unguarded and honest images taken of the Stones during their first decade.