Martha Cooper
Martha
Cooper knew she would be a photographer from the time she was
a child and received her first Kodak Brownie camera. In the ensuing
years, Martha's love of travel and fascination with the local
cultures have enabled her to create a body of work depicting the
lives and routines of people from a variety of places throughout
the world. Her photographs have appeared in National Geographic,
Smithsonian and Natural History Magazines as well as several dozen
books and journals. She is the Director of Photography at CityLore,
the New York Center for Urban Folk Culture. More...
Educated at Oxford and Grinnell, Cooper has also served as a
staff photographer at several newspapers (including the New York
Post) and worked as a Curatorial Assistant at Yale's Peabody Museum
of Natural History. Her list of accomplishments include the following
exhibitions: Place Matters with Laura Hansen and Municipal Arts
Society, Casitas with Betti-Sue Hertz, Bronx Council on the Arts,
and Lawn Shrines and Sidewalk Alters with Joe Sciorra. And, her
work has been showcased in numerous publications, including the
following:
2002 R.I.P., Memorial Wall Art, text by Joseph Sciorra, new edition
by Thames & Hudson, N.Y. 1993 Haiti on the Hudson, The Formation
of the Haitian Communities of Rockland County, text by Morton
Marks, Rockland County Historical Society. 1984 Subway Art, text
and photos with Henry Chalfant, Henry Holt
Cooper is also the author of the article "Folklore Photography"
which originally appeared in 2000 in Voices, the membership magazine
of the New York Folklore Society, volume 26. This article is available
on the web at http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voicjl/folkph.html.
To view examples of Martha's photographic work, please see the
following web sites:
Missing
@ CityLore.org
The Kodak
Girl Collection
Martha
Cooper's NY City Snaps
@
149th Street
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