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Self-Portrait, Side View, Bent
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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- 1985
- Medium
- Diffusion print
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- c490e800-c915-43c5-9bfc-a1dcc22bc5f0
In profile to the camera, the nude artist bends forward while standing on his right leg. His left leg extends out towards the back.
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