Thomas Joshua Cooper FRSE (born December 19, 1946) is an American photographer.
[2] Cooper studied art, philosophy and literature and received his bachelor's degree from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California in 1969.
[3][8] After teaching art and photography in a number of schools in California, Cooper moved to England.
[7] At the end of September, 2019, on the 500th anniversary of the beginning of Magellan's circumnavigation of the world, Cooper opened for the first time "The Atlas of Emptiness and Extremity," at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: In an exhibition called 'The World's Edge' [1] comprising 65 large-scale and 75 8 x 10 black-and-white photographs, showcases Cooper's The Atlas of Emptiness and Extremity, The World's Edge, and The Atlantic Basin Project, which he first embarked upon in 1987, to chart the Atlantic Basin from the extreme points of each north, south, east, and west coordinates.
[11] Cooper's works are held by over fifty[16] museums and public collections, among them:[2] http://www.parliament.scot/visitandlearn/24316.aspx