Hat & Beard Press is Proud to Announce a Book & Photo Exhibition Featuring Work By Michael Cooper & Terry Southern
Exhibit runs from May 4 - June 14
5:00pm: Editor Nile Southern will sign books at the book-launch and art reception.
7:00pm: Utah Film Center's screening of The War at Home, which chronicles the anti-war protest movement of the 60's and 70's. Q&A following the film with Nile Southern.
Editors Nile Southern and Adam Cooper, having planned for many years a print collaboration featuring their fathers’ collective work, here present a kaleidoscopic, on-the-ground account of the historic protests (and unprecedented police riots) that took place in Lincoln and Grant parks during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, 50 years ago. Told primarily through Michael Cooper’s photographs and Terry Southern’s words, CHICAGO 1968:The Whole World is Watching is Nile and Adam’s tribute to two great artists of the 20th century, who happen to be their fathers.
Coinciding with the 50-year anniversary of the protests, the 136-page book, with dozens of Michael Cooper’s never-before-seen photographs, debuted in September 2018 in Chicago at the Land & Sea Department, an alternative arts and culture space on Chicago’s North Side. The exhibition then moved to Mr. Musichead Gallery and SHOW Gallery in Los Angeles, and will be in residence at the San Francisco Art Exchange throughout March 2019.
Proto-New Journalist, novelist and screenwriter Terry Southern [Candy, The Magic Christian, Dr.Strangelove, Easy Rider] traveled to Chicago that fateful year to report on the convention with William S.Burroughs and Jean Genet for Esquire magazine. Rock photographer extraordinaire Michael Cooper, famous for his indelible images of the Rolling Stones and the cover of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart's Club Band album, was there as the all-seeing lens. Together they captured the turbulence and civil unrest from which the whole country was reeling that year, crystallizing it in words and pictures.
"The style was defined by its unmistakable origin in a previous tradition: It was police-state, concentration-camp style, a mode always available to the mood of tyranny.” --Elizabeth Hardwick
AGE GROUP: | All Ages |
EVENT TYPE: | Arts & Creativity |
NOTE: The Main Library's Rooftop Terrace is closed for renovations.
Salt Lake City's Main Library, designed by internationally-acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie in conjunction with VCBO Architecture, opened in February 2003 and remains one of the most architecturally unique structures in Utah. This striking 240,000 square-foot structure houses more than 500,000 books and other materials, yet serves as more than just a repository of books and computers. It reflects and engages the city's imagination and aspirations. The structure embraces a public plaza, with shops and services at ground level, reading galleries above, and a 300-seat auditorium.
A multi-level reading area along the Glass Lens at the southern facade of the building looks out onto the plaza with stunning views of the city and Wasatch Mountains beyond. Spiraling fireplaces on four floors resemble a column of flame from the vantage of 200 East and 400 South. The Urban Room between the Library and the Crescent Wall is a space for all seasons, generously endowed with daylight and open to magnificent views.
