William "Bill" James Cottman, Jr.

About Bill: Photographer. Writer. Projectionist

In his words from his website: http://www.billcottman.com/

"My creative process is grounded in traditional photographic methods and energized by two questions: Why? and How?. My electrical engineering education demands to know how, while my experience in living

wants to know why. I am motivated by the music of John Coltrane, the writing of Langston Hughes, the painting of Romare Bearden and the photography of Henri Cartier Bresson, Gary Winogrand and Roy DeCarava. I make photographs quickly and causally but never without purpose. I describe my style as social landscape; compositions of people, places and things that cross my path daily. I have evolved into an intra-media performance artist by digitally blending visual and aural elements to be employed as character, environment and cinema in live performance."

More about Bill:

KFAI Radio: https://www.kfai.org/remembering-bill-cottman-on-mostly-jazz/

Minn Post profile: https://www.minnpost.com/artscape/2020/08/photographer-writer-and-projectionist-bill-cottman-you-cant-do-anything-with-time-except-use-it/

memorial service

Virtual Observance for Bill

December 14, 2021

Via the Estes Funeral Chapel website (https://www.estesfuneralchapel.com).

You should be able to log-in to the video livestream 15 minutes before the virtual observance begins on the homepage.

Funeral/Cremation Provider: Estes Funeral Chapel & Cremation Services