Michael Cooper - Blinds And Shutters - hardcover numbered and signed #4562/5000 - 1990

Hardcover. Condition: excellent/like new. First edition, first printing, limited edition. 368 pp. Profusely illustrated with (over 600) color and black & white reproductions of photographs. Hardcover leather/buckram in yellow and black in a matching hand made silk screened solander box. One of the most important books to document the rock-and-roll era. A tribute to the photographer Michael Cooper, best known for his photographs of the world of rock music in the 1960's and early 1970's and a close friend of The Beatles and The Stones. Introduced by Terry Southern, with forewords by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and conceived by BILL WYMAN (an English musician and the bass guitarist of the Rolling Stones), who has signed every copy. The edition was limited to 5000 copies (this being number 4562) each signed by a different selection of contributors. This copy is signed by
• PETER BLAKE (an English pop artist who co-created the sleeve design for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper’s)
• JENNY BOYD: freelance model in the 1960s, came to know The Beatles, various bands that included Eric Clapton, and other major British rock acts. As a rock star muse, Boyd inspired Donovan and Mick Jagger to write songs about her
• ERIC CLAPTON: world famous vocalist/guitarist (Ex-John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, -The Cream, Ex-Blind Faith).
• ADAM COOPER: son of Blinds and Shutters-photographer Michael Cooper
• TERRY DORAN (was an English luxury car dealer, pop music manager and music publishing executive, best known for his association with the Beatles)
• ALLEN JONES: British pop artist best known for his paintings, sculptures, and lithography.
• GAVIN LAMBERT (23 July 1924 – 17 July 2005) was a British-born screenwriter, novelist and biographer. His writing was mainly fiction and nonfiction about the film industry.
• ANN MARSHALL: born on 17 July 1946 in the USA. She is an actress, known for The Fall Guy (1981), My Favorite Martian (1963) and Hazel (1961)
• EARLMcGRATH: American record executive and gallerist (1931-2016).
• KEITH RICHARDS (guitarist/vocalist and co-founder of The Rolling Stones)
• BRIDGET RILEY (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter, and op artist.
• COLIN SELF: English Pop Artist whose work has addressed the theme of Cold War politics.
• BILL WYMAN born 24 October 1936) is an English musician who was the bass guitarist with the rock band The Rolling Stones from 1962 to 1993.

Review-quote from Q-magazine: „Sumptuously packaged in its own box, beautifully designed and individually signed by its celebrity contributors. Blinds & Shutters is the most lavish coffee table publication imaginable...The book reconstructs the mid-`60s through the unobtrusive lens of the late Michael Cooper, best known for his pioneering Sgt. Pepper sleeve and its overabitious „3-D“-Stones equivalent `Their Satanic Majesties Request‘.
The results are breathtaking. You are pitched in among the Indian scarves, alligator ankle boots and E-type Jags of the London demi-monde....And there are delicious insights offered by the text.“

'The most stupendous rock and roll picture book ever assembled' – USA Today

Note: Book is placed in its original styrofoam box (see photo) and will be sent in a larger cardboard box.