Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album - Vintage Prints From the Sixties

About this book

Lying hidden away in Dennis Hoppers home until their discovery months after the artists death in 2010 this collection of spectacular photographs exhibited only once in 196970 at the Fort Worth Art Center Museum is a testament to Hoppers prolific and enormous talent behind the camera. These photographs are spontaneous intimate poetic observant and decidedly political. While some are portraits of figures within Hoppers circle of actor artist musician and poet friendsincluding Jane Fonda Paul Newman and Robert Rauschenbergthey also include images from his extensive travels in Los Angeles New York London Mexico and Peru. Hoppers abiding support of the Civil Rights movement and social justice is evident in his shots from the march on Selma and Harlem street scenes. In images of beauty and stillness he transfers Abstract Expressionism into the artistic language of photography. Throughout this stunning volume Hoppers sensitive keenly observant eye shines through making it clear that he was a deeply committed chronicler of the events that were unfolding around him.