Body Parts: A Self-Portrait
by John Coplans

Body Parts: A Self-Portrait by John Coplans features twenty-six large black-and-white photographs from 2001-2002, Coplans’s final series before his death in August 2003. A founding editor of Artforum magazine, Coplans changed careers in 1980, leaving the world of criticism and curating to become a widely exhibited photographer. In 1984, at the age of 64, Coplans began an extended photographic documentation of his own aging body. Coplans’s final series is intimate and direct; each photograph captures isolated body parts, cropped and fragmented; Coplans then reassembled the images into diptychs.