# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-coplans
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:05:50.114Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-coplans"
name: "John Coplans"
slug: "john-coplans"
description: "John Rivers Coplans was a British artist, art writer, curator, and museum director. A veteran of World War II and a photographer, he emigrated to the United States in 1960 and had many exhibitions in Europe and North America. He was on the founding editorial staff of Artforum from 1962 to 1971, and was Editor-in-Chief from 1972 to 1977."
tagline: "British photographer (1920–2003)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/%27Back_with_Arms_Above%27%2C_black_and_white_photograph_by_John_Coplans%2C_1984.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1920-06-24"
deathDate: "2003-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.810296
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%BE%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "جون كوپلانس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coplans"
    title: "John Coplans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coplans"
    title: "John Coplans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Копланс, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coplans"
    title: "John Coplans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3181269"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump