Author name: Max Cooper

Max Cooper is a wedding photographer in Asheville, NC. He shoots art stuff too. He worries that his brides will found out about his art and his art fans will find out he shoots weddings. He used to work for a couple of newspapers you’ve never heard of. He smokes a pipe and likes fishing and whiskey. His family puts up with him for now.

Scan and Destroy – My blasphemous quest to be free of my negatives – By Max Cooper

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The issue of SHOTS magazine current at the time of this writing contains images central to my thesis: Recovered slides from my grandfather’s collection. On the off-chance you missed it, I’ll reproduce them below. These were shot in the late 1940s using my grandfather’s Argus C3, the original 35mm compact, so it was a stretch …

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Nikon 50mm f/1.8 – Returning to the Cheap Fifty: A Homecoming – By Max Cooper

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For the longest time I coveted a 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor AIS. This yearning began in art school, where photography was the family member that drank too much at Thanksgiving and was consequently relegated to the tutelage of an old hardline photojournalist adjunct who would go on to somehow insult the department chair and be phased …

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