SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
A complete listing of Coplans bibliography can also be accessed at the Yale University Center for British Art.
Artist's Books
A Body of Work. New York: N.p., 1987.
Hand. New York: Galerie Lelong, 1988.
Foot. New York: Galerie Lelong, 1989.
Frieze. Paris: Paul Bianchini Galerie Toner, 1994.
Hand 2. Paris: Paul Bianchini Galerie Toner, 1994.
Provocations: Writing by John Coplans. New York: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, 1997.
Self Portrait: Finger. N.p., 1999.
A Body: John Coplans. New York: powerHouse Books, 2002.
Books
Cooper, Emmanuel. Fully Exposed: The Male Nude in Photography. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990: 203, 212, 247.
Davis, Melody. The Male Nude in Contemporary Photography. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991: 27-64, 155-57.
Ewing, William A. The Body: Photography of the Human Form. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994: 50-51, 57, 59, 139, 142, 156.
Honnef, Klaus, ed. Lichtblindnisse: Das Portrat in der Photographie. Cologne: Rheinland-Verlag, 1982: 226-27, 706.
Frizot, Michel, ed. Nouvelle Histoire de la Photographie. Paris: Bordas, 1994: 24, 726.
The Hand. Paris: Chene, 1992: 169-71.
Maison Europeenne de la Photographie. Une Aventure Contemporaine: La Photographie (1955-1995). Paris: Paris Audiovisuel, 1996: 172-73.
Naef, Weston J. Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and E.P. Dutton, 1982: 60-61, 153, plat 26.
Naef, Weston J. Introduction to New Directions: The Gallery of World Photography, 12. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1984: 38-39.
Pultz, John. The Body and the Lens: Photography 1839 to the Present. New York: Abrams, 1995: 60, 162-63.
Sullivan, Constance. ed. Legacy of Light. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987: 120-23, 174-75.
Sandler, Irving. Art of the Postmodern Era. New York: Harper Collins, 1996: 334-335, 534-535.
Jeffrey, Ian. The Photography Book. London: Phaidon, 1997: 99.
Adenne, Paul. Art L'Age Contemporain. Paris: Regard, 199: 282, 334.
Davis, Keith. An American Century of Photography. New York: Abrams, 1998: 447.
McDurragh, Fred and Gloria. The Photography Encyclopedia. New York: Schirmer Books, 1999: 94-96.