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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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, nd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Royal family at Balmoral, 1964<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Bryan Stanyon & Hannah Gordon ‘Hamlet’, 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Duncan McCrae, ‘The Miser’, 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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‘The Rising’ with The McCallmans, 1973<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Wizard of Oz, 1975<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Greg Fisher with other members of the cast of Midsummer’s Night Dream, playing at Dundee Rep, 1976<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Jill Gasgoine, actor, Alex Coupar, photographer and Robert Robertson, Artistic Director, Dundee Rep, at opening of exhibition of theatre productions photographed by Alex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Bobby Charlton training youngsters at Dundee, nd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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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, 1980<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa received an Honorary Degree from the University of Dundee in 1982<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Joanna Lumley as Madame Ranevskaya in ‘The Cherry Orchard’, Dundee Rep, 1989<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Some images dating from mid-1966 and earlier are potentially copyright of DC Thomson & Co Ltd where Alex was employed as a staff photographer.\u00a0All other images are copyright of Alex Coupar.\u00a0Audio is copyright University of Dundee Archive Services. Nothing to be reproduced without permission<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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. Some images dating from mid-1966 and earlier are potentially copyright of DC Thomson & Co Ltd where Alex was employed as a staff photographer.\u00a0All […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/coupars-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}