Nile Southern and Adam Cooper (2)

Nile Southern is a writer and filmmaker whose book The Candy Men: The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel CANDY was awarded Book of the Year for Creative Non-Fiction in Colorado. He has edited numerous books, including Yours in Haste and Adoration: Selected Letters of Terry Southern (with Brooke Allen), Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern 1950-1995 (with Josh Alan Friedman), and The Hipsters (2021, Antibook). He has written for various magazines, including Stop Smiling, The National Herald, and Cineaste. He was an editor for Fiction Collective 2, and his work has appeared in O-Blek and Black Scat. His screen-based novella, The Anarchivists of Eco-Dub (1996), was the most downloaded e-book from Black Ice Books. He is currently working on a personal documentary film, Dad Strangelove, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Terry Southern. Nile also manages the TS literary estate. Adam Cooper was born in London, England in the 1960s. His early life was a crazy one, spent with his father, Michael Cooper, a very respected photographer of the cultural explosion in both London and the U.S. As a child, Adam spent time with the likes of the Stones and the Beatles until his father passed away in 1973. When Adam was 16 years old, the phone rang. It was Sandy Lieberson, a close friend of the family and iconic producer, offering him the opportunity to work on the feature film he was producing. That was only the beginning. To date, Adam has worked on over 42 feature films, and thousands of commercials, documentaries, and music videos as Director of Photographer and Producer. At 18 years old, Adam received his inheritance of his father’s estate including all of Michael’s original photographic negatives. Since then, Adam has represented his father’s work at the best photographic galleries across the globe, staged multiple exhibitions, and produced seven books about Michael’s work. His latest books include “Butterfly in the Park,” about Brian Jones, and “Chicago 1968.”

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Brian Jones: Butterfly in the Park $50.00

Brian Jones: Butterfly in the Park is available EXCLUSIVELY from our site. In the 1960s, Michael Cooper was a successful photographer working in the London music scene. His photographs were the foundation of album covers from the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band to the Rolling Stones’ Their Satanic Majesties Request. He was a fashion photographer for Vogue London, and collaborated on an early film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange featuring the Rolling Stones. He was as much a part of the culture of 1960s London as he was its chronicler. Michael photographed many of the icons of the counterculture movement of that unique period. But it was his close friendship with the Rolling Stones that formed the foundation for his extraordinary career. Brian Jones was the multi-instrumentalist band leader who arranged and designed the Rolling Stones’ musical direction, crafting a music fusion which has defined their sound and attitude ever since. He was the musical genius who created a cultural and musical phenomenon. Brian Jones: Butterfly in the Park collects over 120 images chronicling Brian Jones’ career, his life, and in many ways his relationship with Michael Cooper, who was ever at Brian’s side with his camera, ready to record Brian’s magical presence. Adam Cooper and his wife Silvia have opened the Michael Cooper Collection archives to bring us an insider’s view of Brian Jones and the Rolling Stones in the recording studio, live on stage, at play with their friends in Ireland and Morocco, on the cover photo shoot for Their Satanic Majesties Request, and so much more. With an introduction by Paul Trynka, and new contributions from Donovan, Linda Lawrence Leitch, Andee Nathanson, Prince Stash Klossowski de Rola, Brian’s son Julian, and his grandson Joolz Jones, Brian Jones: Butterfly in the Park offers a unique insight into one of the most enigmatic and influential musical figures of the 1960s, as some of Brian’s friends recount their own personal experiences in nearly 9,000 words. Brian Jones: Butterfly in the Park comes in softcover, full color, 8.5x11, 154 pages. ISBN: 978-1-947521-31-5 Media one sheet. Download here.

Nile Southern and Adam Cooper

Chicago 1968: The Calm Before the Storm $50.00

In the late summer of 1968, writers Terry Southern, William S. Burroughs, and Jean Genet were deployed by Esquire magazine to cover the Democratic Convention in Chicago. With photographer Michael Cooper and poet Allen Ginsberg inseparable parts of their coterie, the “fab 5” (as Michael Simmons dubbed them) were unflappable, capturing the calm and riding out the storm. These were turbulent times, as growing opposition to the Vietnam War inspired the Yippies to organize one of the biggest youth demonstrations of all time. Pot-smoking peaceniks descended upon Chicago from all over the country to protest the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the anticipated coronation of the Establishment candidate, Hubert Humphrey. Chicago was a Republican stronghold, and Mayor Richard J. Daley wanted to present a peaceful “law and order” city that wouldn’t tolerate any “outside agitators” or “unpatriotic” long-hairs. No one could have foreseen the unprecedented mobilization of tens of thousands of young people from all over the country, and the lengths to which Mayor Daley went to shut them down. Michael Cooper and Terry Southern, no strangers to absurdity and highly attuned to the strengths and aspirations of youth culture, witnessed the deployment of the national guard, a belligerent police force “run amuck” and rioting, and the outrageous aggression unleashed on the protesters on the streets of Chicago—harkening to the hugely funded militarization of police forces today, and the continual need for their reform.Chicago 1968: The Calm Before the Storm captures Michael Cooper’s celebration of his writer-friends and the protests in which they were playing a part—¬moments before the chaos and terror that became Chicago ’68. Accompanied by one of the great new journalism pieces by Southern, we have, with Cooper’s photos, an intimate and wry, world-weary account of a pivotal cultural moment whose city-sponsored violence has echoed throughout history and offers us a cautionary reminder for today. Chicago 1968 recalls the events of three fateful days in late August that must never be forgotten. With original research, curated ephemera and fresh commentary, Nile Southern and Adam Cooper highlight their fathers’ distillation of this pivotal moment in American history, exploring the fault lines between reportage, activism and poetry.As the National Democratic Convention returns to Chicago this summer (2024), this book is more relevant than ever, particularly with the Democratic Party navigating its stance on Israel’s war on Gaza, and how forcefully the growingly disenchanted youth vote will express its demand for a peace candidate. Why we love this book... Chicago ‘68: The Calm Before the Storm documents the visual poetry, both in photos and written text, that is the Yippie Movement. We chose to publish this due to the timely nature of events mentioned in the book, as history often unfortunately repeats itself. Police brutality continues in prevalence, just as it did during the protests of 1968 at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. This piece of visual history includes never before seen photographs of the emotion, power, and intensity demonstrated during this time, and we are proud to publish this book at Genius Book Publishing, Inc.

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