This long overdue monograph presents a panorama of portraits from William Coupon. The photographer was given wide access to artists, musicians, politicians, authors and the world’s indigenous people on assignment from major publications like 'Time', 'Rolling Stone', 'The New York Times', 'Esquire', and 'The Washington Post'. He photographed his subjects against a mottled backdrop of hand-painted Belgian linen, often in a classically lit medium shot format, inspired by Dutch masters such as Rembrandt and by Holbein. Coupon has remained true to this method, whether working in the Oval Office in Washington D. C. or a tribal hut amongst the pygmies in the Central African Republic, or the Caraja in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental images compliment the more formal portraits. 'Portraits' includes iconic images of Mick Jagger, Miles Davis, Elie Wiesel, David Byrne, Presidents Nixon, Carter, Bush, Trump, Jean Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, and Prince Philip among many others from Haiti, Panama, Holland, Northern Scandinavia, and other places. In his work, Coupon seeks to present a truly egalitarian portrait of humanity integrating common people with the wealthy, powerful, and famous.

William Coupon was born in 1952 in New York, but moved to Washington D.C. and later to San Francisco. He is currently based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He began to photograph in 1978 at Studio 54, then moving downtown to the punk scene at the Mudd Club, documenting its new wave participants. Commercial work soon followed for a variety of international magazines, record companies and advertising agencies. He continued to shoot portraits, often of various sub-cultures and indigenous peoples in the 1980s and early 1990s, including death row inmates at Florida State Prison, Australian Aboriginals, Moroccan Berbers, New Guinea tribesmen, traditional Dutch, among others. These 30 particular series comprise his Social Studies, an ongoing and ever expanding project. His current work embraces the digital medium, in places like Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, and in his native United States.

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