Self-Portrait (Back View, Upright)

Creator

British Photographer · 1920–2003

Following a career as a teacher, curator, and editor, John Coplans took up photography full-time at age sixty. He began painting as a young man, after a tour of duty in the British Armed Forces during World War II. In 1960 he immigrated to the United States, where he settled in San Francisco and taught at the University of California, Berkeley. Two years later, he founded the periodical *Artforum*