Last week the death of Terry O'Neill, photographer of Swinging Sixties London, gained headlines and nostalgic stories all round the world.
Terry was one of a handful of superstar photographers of the time - David Bailey, Terence Donovan, Robert Freeman and Michael Cooper.
If Michael Cooper did nothing else, he'd have found a place in popular culture history as the man who photographed Sergeant Pepper for the gatefold album cover.
But Keith Richards' old flat-mate did a lot more before dying tragically young, by his own hand, in 1973. He'd been planning a book featuring his huge collection of images. And when it finally came out, it was thanks to a publisher as far away from Swinging London as its possible to get. Simon Morris talks with Masterton's David Hedley, co-publisher of Blinds and Shutters with Genesis Publications. He discovers this is by no means David's first brush with the Beatles.
And if you've got a spare 1800 dollars or so, you can pick up one of the final 600 copies of Blinds and Shutters - the photographs of Michael Cooper - at the Karen Walker Hedley Pop Up shop at Auckland's Britomart, or at Hedley Books in Masterton before its international release.
