William Coupon signs on to Topless Project

World-renowned photographer William Coupon signs on to do the Topless Project in Hollywood Jan 30th, 2010. He has inspired and created some of the most amazing works of art in recent history. William Coupon was born in New York City, but moved to Washington, D.C. and later to San Francisco. He attended Syracuse University and ultimately moved to New York City to begin his photographic career. He began in 1979 to photograph backdrop portraits of New York’s youth culture, to document its “New Wave/Punk” scene at the then popular Mudd Club in lower Manhattan. Commercial work soon followed for a variety of international magazines, record companies and advertising agencies. He continued to photograph portraits, often of various sub-cultures and indigenous peoples in the 1980s and early. These were titled his “Social Studies” series. He was invited to photograph the world’s tribal leaders during the Earth Summit in May of 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His most current work embraces the digital medium, in places like Cuba, Venezuela and in his native America, which is more candid, but still formalistic in approach.