Chip Cooper’s photographs of Alabama resonate with a sense of time, past and passing. Printed in vivid color, these varied images may depict the reflections in the window of a beautiful old door, a dogwood in autumn, or the old local grocery store. Cooper reveals structure, not only in a length of fence, or the elaborate trim on an old house, but also in the abstract patterns created by water, grass, trees and sky.
Photographer Chip Cooper has devoted his career to defining the South by capturing its sense of place. Alabama Memories; Chip Cooper Photographs, published in 1989, is a compendium of scenes of an Alabama that is disappearing. Featuring 200 masterful photographs of landscapes, abstracts and architecture, it conveys Alabama’s story in rich detail, capturing the diversity of geography and culture of the artist’s home state. Director of Photography for the University of Alabama for 33 years, and currently artist in residence, Cooper’s work has shown nationally and internationally, and is represented in many museum, private and corporate collections.
Images from Alabama Memories:
This book is shelved in the Alabama Room and is for library use only.
Photographs are reproduced with the express consent of Chip Cooper.