Bob Cobbing with outstretched arm in front of utfart sign, half length portrait, facing forward, Stockholm Sweden, 1972

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Charles Amirkhanian Collection ➔ Bob Cobbing with outstretched arm in front of utfart sign, half length portrait, facing forward, Stockholm Sweden, 1972

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Identifier
IM.CA.PC.0002.015
Dates
1972-04-01/1972-04-30 | created
Work Type
Photographic print
Image Class
Composer & Performer Portraits
Image Series
Sound Poets: Fylkingen
Description
A portrait photograph of English sound poet Bob Cobbing standing in front of a Swedish exit sign, taken by Charles Amirkhanian, during his visit to Stockholm’s Fylkingen Society in 1972. Bob Cobbing is one of the best known sound poets in the world, a dynamic gentleman with a lovely accent who was active as a poet, performer, and composer of text-sound compositions. Cobbing also was a producer and collector of concrete or visual poetry, and his bookstore, Better Books of London was a leading distribution point for avant-garde poets during the 1960s and 70s. Bob Cobbing died in 2002 at the age of 82.
Genres & Subjects
Portrait photographs--1970-1980
Men
Poets
Signs (Notices)
Image Ownership
Charles Amirkhanian
Photo Credits
Charles Amirkhanian
Related place
Stockholm (Sweden) (was created at)
Related Entities
Amirkhanian, Charles
Cobbing, Bob, 1920-2002
Fylkingen (Society)