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Self-Portrait (Knees and Hands, No. 1)
Creator
John CoplansBritish Photographer · 1920–2003
All works by this person →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*
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- 1993
- Medium
- Diffusion print
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- b0ede0c7-e5c8-4d7c-9992-e75b1ff70613
Upper image shows the artist's left knee bent with his left hand at its side. The lower image shows his left hand holding his shin just above the ankle, his foot resting against his right leg.
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