John Coplans

John Coplans was born in 1920 and recently died in 2003. He was a British artist and a photographer and he did self portraits which are really interesting because he shows the details of himself such as the wrinkles on his body and face. I have decided to look specifically at his photographs of hands.

I think his photos his own hands are very powerful and show that there is a story behind the hands and that they have been through a lot. With him being in the war you can only imagine what he has done with those hands. This makes the photos more interesting and personal. Hands can say so much about a person. You can get well kept hands with nail polish and no wrinkles or you can get muddy and dirty old hands. Both show a story about the person and you can guess from their hands, what kind of background they have.