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John Cohen: Look Up to the Moon
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In the summer of 1955 a relatively naive and uninformed John Cohen crossed the straits of Gibraltar. He arrived in Tangier with a handwritten note in cursive Arabic; the man who had composed it in New York had told him to "keep this paper far from your passport." Cohen had no idea why or indeed what the note said; it was not addressed to aspecific person. He was simply instructed to look for a certain man when he arrived, who would then send him to "the others." Cohen's otherwise straightforward trip to make photographs in Morocco thus began with a sense of intrigue and perhaps risk.
This was Cohen's first journey outside America to see the world. In his words: "The camera led my way to a distant culture, along with the desire to represent what I could see and sense there, and not be distracted by chronology or thought. My photographs were intended to be a sensual response to light and to the people who inhabited these spaces. These Morocco photos were ... an indication of what was to come."
Extent: 120 pp
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2021-01-20
Size: 32.6 x 24.9 cm
ISBN: 9783958295551
About the Author
Born in 1932 in New York, John Cohen (1932-2019) was a photographer, filmmaker and founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers. A masters graduate from Yale University, Cohen participated in the artistic circles of late 1950s and early '60s New York, and photographed Robert Frank's film Pull My Daisy (1959). He made numerous books and films, and produced recordings of traditional American musicians including Dillard Chandler and Roscoe Holcomb. The Library of Congress acquired his archive in 2011. Cohen's books with Steidl include Past Present Peru (2010), The High and Lonesome Sound (2012), Here and Gone (2014), Cheap rents ... and de Kooning (2016) and Look up to the Moon (2019).
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