The exhibition shows a spectacular portfolio of over four hundred vintage photographs taken by Dennis Hopper in the 1960s. Location: Billboard Factory, Los Angeles, Ca USA Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. Many thankx to Martin-Gropius-Bau for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting.
Nostalgia, longing, sadness and joy at his life and the feeling that I was looking into the eyes of one of the great human beings of the twentieth century. Enlarging the face of Martin Luther King Jr., (below) and then looking into his eyes, I felt I had a connection with this person.
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Nice to see the work full frame as well, meaning that the photographers’ previsualisation was strong in camera that Hopper had an excellent understanding of the construction of the pictorial frame negating the necessity for cropping of the image. They perfectly capture the social milieu of the time and the pervading ethos of the fracturing of the image plane, a la Gary Winogrand or Lee Friedlander. Unlike an earlier posting of photographs by a well known film director (the underwhelming, in fact pretty awful, Wim Wenders: Places, Strange and Quiet), these “lost” photographs by Dennis Hopper are very good. “The necessity to make these photos and paintings came from a real place – a place of desperation and solitude – with the hope that someday these objects, paintings, and photos would be seen filling the void I was feeling.” They were the only creative outlet I had for these years until Easy Rider. I married Brooke at twenty-five and got a good camera and could afford to take pictures and print them. I went under contract to Warner Brothers at eighteen. (…) These represent the years from twenty-five to thirty-one, 1961 to 1967. © The Dennis Hopper Trust, Courtesy of The Dennis Hopper Trust Tags: actors, Alabama, American art, American black and white photography, American Civil Rights Movements, American photography, American social documentary photographs, American social documentary photography, andy warhol, artists, bikers and hippies, Brooke Hayward, celebrity photography, Claes Oldenburg, dennis hopper, Dennis Hopper Andy Warhol, Dennis Hopper Andy Warhol and Members of The Factory, Dennis Hopper Double Standard, Dennis Hopper Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper Guy With 5 Hogs, Dennis Hopper James Brown, Dennis Hopper James Rosenquist, Dennis Hopper Martin Luther King Jr., Dennis Hopper Niki de Saint Phalle, Dennis Hopper Paul Newman, Dennis Hopper The Lost Album, Double Standard, Easy Rider, Ferus Gallery, Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Gerard Malanga, Gregory Markopoulos, Guy With 5 Hogs, Jack Smith, James Brown, James Rosenquist, Los Angeles Art Scene, Marin Hopper, Marlon Brando, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Montgomery Alabama, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, Members of The Factory, Montgomery, Montgomery Alabama, musicians and poets, Niki de Saint Phalle, paul newman, Taylor Mead, the Factory, The Lost Album, Vintage Photographs of the 1960sĮxhibition dates: 20th September – 17th December 2012 Categories: American, american photographers, beauty, Berlin, black and white photography, documentary photography, exhibition, gallery website, intimacy, landscape, light, memory, New York, photography, portrait, reality, space and time