As well as capturing people of note, Alex has had a long relationship with Dundee Rep, photographing productions and actors. He’s also enjoyed a long working relationship with the Royal family.
Losing his sight and the lower part of his right leg during WW2, Syd Scroggie subsequently became an inspirational figure as a mountain walker, poet and author, ndRoyal family at Balmoral, 1964Bryan Stanyon & Hannah Gordon ‘Hamlet’, 1962Duncan McCrae, ‘The Miser’, 1962‘The Rising’ with The McCallmans, 1973Wizard of Oz, 1975Greg Fisher with other members of the cast of Midsummer’s Night Dream, playing at Dundee Rep, 1976
Jill Gasgoine, actor, Alex Coupar, photographer and Robert Robertson, Artistic Director, Dundee Rep, at opening of exhibition of theatre productions photographed by AlexBobby Charlton training youngsters at Dundee, nd
A renowned artist of landscapes, still lifes and portraiture, Alberto Morrocco was also Head of Painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, 1980Opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa received an Honorary Degree from the University of Dundee in 1982Joanna Lumley as Madame Ranevskaya in ‘The Cherry Orchard’, Dundee Rep, 1989
Some images dating from mid-1966 and earlier are potentially copyright of DC Thomson & Co Ltd where Alex was employed as a staff photographer. All other images are copyright of Alex Coupar. Audio is copyright University of Dundee Archive Services. Nothing to be reproduced without permission
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Fascinating exhibition. I remember being part of a small group of Boy Scouts invited down to Span Photos when it was newly established in South Tay Street in the mid sixties. I must have been about 15 at the time and as a working class boy from the schemes had no camera but an interest in photography and the captured image. The visit and Alex’s enthusiasm for his craft stuck with me ever since. I never met him again but his work influenced my later amateur efforts. The mixture of nostalgia and aesthetics brought a tear to my eye. I hope the exhibition can be more widely publicised.
Fascinating exhibition. I remember being part of a small group of Boy Scouts invited down to Span Photos when it was newly established in South Tay Street in the mid sixties. I must have been about 15 at the time and as a working class boy from the schemes had no camera but an interest in photography and the captured image. The visit and Alex’s enthusiasm for his craft stuck with me ever since. I never met him again but his work influenced my later amateur efforts. The mixture of nostalgia and aesthetics brought a tear to my eye. I hope the exhibition can be more widely publicised.