Dennis Hopper (1936–2010) is a cult figure. One would be hard-pressed to find anyone who better represents the emotionally charged era of the Sixties cultural revolution. He was gifted, self-assured, and radical – “the definitive Hollywood rebel,” a protagonist of the provocative, eccentric, and excessive. Hopper was an actor, director, and author –sometimes all at once, as in
Easy Rider (1969),
The Last Movie (1971), or
Out of the Blue (1980).
During the 1960s, Dennis Hopper carried a camera everywhere – on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving on freeways and walking on political marches.
He photographed movie idols, pop stars, writers, artists, girlfriends, and complete strangers. Along the way he captured some of the most intriguing moments of his generation with a keen and intuitive eye.
A reluctant icon at the epicenter of that decade’s cultural upheaval, Hopper documented the likes of Tina Turner in the studio, Andy Warhol at his first West Coast show, Paul Newman on set, and Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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| Jean Tinguely, 1963 |
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| John Altoon, 1964 |
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| Tuesday Weld, 1965 |
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| Robert Irwin, 1962 |
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| James Rosenquist (with Brunette Billboard, Vertical), 1964 |
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| Robert Rauschenberg, 1966 |
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| Larry Bell, 1964 |
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| Niki de Saint Phalle, 1963 |
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| Andy Warhol, 1963 |
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| Ike and Tina Turner, 1965 |
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| Bruce Conner (in tub), Toni Basil, Teri Garr and Ann Marshall, 1965 |
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| Andy Warhol and members of the Factory (Gregory Markopoulos, Taylor Mead, Gerard Malanga, Jack Smith), 1963 |
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| Llyn Foulkes, 1964 |
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| Robert Fraser in Tijuana, Mexico, 1965 |
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| Jane Fonda with bow and arrow, Malibu, 1965 |
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| Irving Blum and Peggy Moffit, 1964 |
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| The Byrds, 1965 |
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| Ed Ruscha, 1964 |
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| Paul Newman, 1964 |
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| Roy Lichtenstein, 1964 |
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| Jasper Johns, 1965 |
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| James Rosenquist, 1964 |
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| James Brown, 1964 |
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| Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, David Hockney and Jeff Goodman, 1963 |
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| Brian Jones, 1965 |
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| Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim at their wedding in Las Vegas, 1964 |
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| Martin Luther King Jr., 1965 |
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| Virginia Dwan, 1964 |
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| David Hemmings |
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| The Grateful Dead, 1967 |
Hopper was the real deal. This is some great modernist photography.
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