selected solo publications
2019
Thomas Joshua Cooper: The World’s Edge (London: Prestel)
2014
Scattered Waters: Sources Streams Rivers, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2010
Shoshone Falls, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Radius Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
True, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
2006
Ojo De Agua/ Eye of Water, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Pace Wildenstein, New York, New York, USA
2004
Point of No Return, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
2003
Some Rivers, Some Trees, Some Rocks, Some Seas, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Il Prisma, Cunio, Italy
2001
wild, Thomas Joshua Cooper, David Bellingham, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
1998
Thomas Joshua Cooper: The Temperaments, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
1997
A Handful of Stones, Coracle Press, London, UK
1995
Archipelago, with Alfred Graf, Galaries H.S. Steinek, Vienna, Austria
1994
Simply Counting Waves, curated by Jorge Molder, Director, Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Perdigao, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian
1988
Dreaming The Gokstadt, Graeme Murray, Edinburgh, UK
1986
Between Dark and Dark, Thomas Joshua Cooper, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico USA
selected collaborative publications
2016
ONE, ed. Dave Campany (Santa Fe, US: Radius Books)
2012
Photography - The Whole Story. General Editor, Julie Hacking; forward by David Campany, pp. 506-7. Thames and Hudson, London, UK
2011
Land Matters - Landscape Phonography, Culture and Identity. By Liz Wells, pp. 292-94. I.B. Taurus London, UK; New York, NY, USA
2010
The Pleasures of Good Photographs. Essays by Gerry Badger, Chapter - 'From Here to Eternity: The Expededitionary Artworks of Thomas Joshua Cooper', pp. 144 - 157, pp130-131. Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, USA
2008
Encyclopaedia of Native American Artists - Artists of the Mosaic. By Deborah Everett and Eleyne Zern, pp. 27 - 30. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, USA and London, UK.
2007
Scottish Photography: A History. By Dr Tom Normand, (pp. 6, 8, 77, 78, 80, 91, 175, 180, 187, 188).
Luath Press Ltd, Edinburgh, UK
Scottish Qualifications Authority. Art and Designs Higher, National Qualifications. One photograph and two critical examination questions on the work. 31 May
2006
Inside the Photograph: Writings on 20th Century Photography. By Peter C. Bunnell, Foreward by Malcom Daniel. Chapter - 'Thomas Joshua Cooper: The Temperaments'. Apeture Foundation, New York, USA
Dictionary of International Biography 33 Edition. International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK.
Who's Who in the World. Marquis Who's Who, Macmillan: London, UK and New York, NY, USA
2005
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. Edited by Robin Lenman. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK; New York, NY, USA
2003
Who's Who in Scotland. Carrick Media, Irvine, Ayrshire, UK
2001
A Companion Guide to Photography in The National Galleries of Scotland. Commentary by Sara Stevenson and Duncan Forbes. The National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
1999
An American Century of Photography - From Digital to Dry Plate - The Hallmark Photographic
Collection. By Kieth Davis, second edition. Hallmark Cards Inc. in association with Harry Abrahms Inc. New York, NY, USA
1998
Sea Change - A Review of the Seascape in Contemporary Photography. Editied by Trudy Wilner Stack. University of Arizona Press/ DAP, Tuscon Arizona; New York, NY, USA
1997
The Photo Book. Edited by Jeffry and Elizabeth Rowe. Phaidon Press Ltd, London, UK.
1991
Salzburg, An Artists View, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Harald Waitzbauer, Edition Fotohof im Otto Muller Verlag
Masterpieces of Contemporary Art. St. James' Press, London, UK
New Scottish Photography: a Critical Review of the Work of Seventeen Photographers. Critical texts by David Brittain and Sara Stevenson. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
New North - New Art from the North of Britain. Editied by Lewis Biggs. Critical texts by Lewis Biggs and Michael Tooby. Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Scottish Photography - A Bibliography. By Sarah Stevenson and A D Morrison-Low, Bibliography notes, Edinburgh, UK
Debrett's People of Today. London, UK
1989
Through the Looking Glass - Photographic Art in Britain, 1945 - 1988. Selected and with critical text by Gerry Badger and John Benton - Harris. Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
American Photographers - An Illustrated Who's Who among leading Contemporary Americans. Facts
On File, New York, NY, USA; Oxford, UK
1988
Art in the Garden, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Graeme Murray, Edinburgh, UK
1987
The Staffa Project: A Collaboration, Ian McKeever, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Preston Art Museum, Preston, UK and Provinciaal Museum Hasselt, Belgium
Contemporary Photograpers. With critical text by Aaron Schraf. St James' Press, London, UK
1986
The Photographic Art - Pictorial Traditions in Britain and America. By Dr. Mike Weaver. Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, UK
1985
The Hayward Annual 1985 - a Journey Through Contemporary Art. Editied by Nigel Greenwood. The Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1984
The Creation - Modern Art and Nature. A book to celebrate the inaugural exhibition in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in new premises. Critical essay by Dr Mike Weaver on 'The Metamorphic Tradition of Modern Photography'.
1983
Macmillan's Biographical Encyclopaedia of Photographic Artists and Innovators. Macmillan, New York, NY, USA
1979
Dialogue with Photography: Interviews by Paul Hill and Thomas Cooper, Dewi Lewis Publishing,
Stockport, UK. Continuously published in English since 1979, with new translations into Spanish
1975
Remnants and Prenotations; The photographs of Thomas Joshua Cooper and Paul Hill, Bristol
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol