Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album
Royal Academy of Arts
26 June-19 October 2014
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From Hell’s Angels and hippies to the streets of Harlem, Hopper’s photography powerfully captures American culture and life in the 1960s, a decade of progress, violence and enormous upheaval.
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- Dennis Hopper, Roy Lichtenstein, 1964.
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- Dennis Hopper, Martin Luther King, Jr., 1965.
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- Dennis Hopper, Andy Warhol and Members of the Factory, 1963.
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- Dennis Hopper, Robert Rauschenberg, 1966
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- Dennis Hopper, Irving Blum and Peggy Moffitt, 1964.
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- Dennis Hopper, Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, David Hockney and Jeff Goodman, 1963.
Dennis Hopper carved out a place in Hollywood history, with roles in classic films like Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, True Romance and Easy Rider. He is less well known, though no less respected, for his work as a photographer. This exhibition brings together over 400 images, taken during one of the most creative periods of his life in the 1960s. Every image you’ll see was chosen by Hopper himself for his first major exhibition in 1970 and is the vintage print he produced for that occasion.
This was a decade of huge social and political change, and Hopper was at the eye of the storm. With his camera trained on the world around him he captured Hell’s Angels and hippies, the street life of Harlem, the Civil Rights movement and the urban landscapes of East and West coast America. He also shot some of the biggest stars of the time from the worlds of art, fashion and music, from Andy Warhol to Paul Newman.
