For 33 years, Coplans has photographed his body nude, from the age of 58 to the age of 81. Mythic in scope and unflinching in its examination of one person's humanness and mortality, in this sequence of 115 duotone images, Coplans transcends the boundaries of photography as an art. Epic, grotesque, bittersweet, sensual, provocative, funny and even, at times, absurd, Coplans achieves a visual meditation on the compelling relationship between sensuality, ageing and death that is unparalleled in the history of the medium. 'I gasped in admiration' - The Village Voice

"Provocations, edited and introduced by the art critic and curator Stuart Morgan, is a selection from 1963 to 1981 of writings by John Coplans and includes essays on Classic Modernism, Photography, and Pop Art, chapters from his books Kurt Schwitters (written with Walter Hopps) and Serial Imagery, and his controversial report on the decline of the Pasadena Art Museum"--