Dennis Hopper: In Dreams: Scenes from the Archive

Author:   Dennis Hopper ,  Michael Schmelling
Publisher:   Damiani
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9788862086431


Pages:   132
Publication Date:   07 November 2019
Format:   Hardback
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In Dreams. Scenes from the Archive adds to our understanding of Dennis Hopper's personal vision as an artist by tracing the threads of Hopper's life through photography, and connecting his roles as an actor, husband, father, and photographer. In Dreams eschews Hopper's iconic stand-alone images and instead looks to distill the archive into a connected set of photographs that offer new impressions and stories. Themes emerge, visual rhymes are made, and characters come and go while the reader is invited along for the journey. Hopper's photographic output was especially concentrated in the '60s, a period in which his film career had cooled off. During these years Hopper's primary creative outlet was his photography. The Nikon camera his wife Brooke Hayward gifted him hung so prominently around his neck that friends jokingly called him 'the tourist.' While In Dreams, which references Roy Orbison's song by the same name made famous in Blue Velvet, includes appearances by famous faces, they are intimately intertwined with Hopper's peripatetic life and his everyday use of the camera. Hopper was very much an insider - at ease with celebrities and artists of his day - but this new conversation with his archive shows that, like many photographers, Hopper was also distinctly an outsider. Famous himself, but also an observer: it's this unique duality that allowed Hopper to view the world in his unique way.

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Author:   Dennis Hopper ,  Michael Schmelling
Publisher:   Damiani
Imprint:   Damiani
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9788862086431


ISBN 10:   8862086431
Pages:   132
Publication Date:   07 November 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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These images, capturing iconic individuals and wide-open Western terrain, create a captivating view of the 60s and 70s that combines political idealism and optimism with California cool.--The Editors loeildelaphotographie.com ...a new book of Dennis's striking photos from his life in Taos.--Kareem Rashed Departures Damiani's book is a small but revealing slice of Hopper's prodigious photographic output. These snapshots, taken with an Instamatic camera and processed at drugstore photo labs, celebrate the rugged landscape of Taos, New Mexico, where he moved in the late 1960s and is now buried. Surreal still lifes and casual photos of friends capture a free-form counterculture existence in which any division between art and life disappears.--Wendy Smith Sotheby's Magazine The photos themselves are black and white, modestly sized on a letter-size page, and handsomely bound. The hardcover binding is beautifully done with large black stamped letters of the title over a photo on the cover, back, and spine.--Richard Rivera New York Journal of Books Flipping through the photo album in Drugstore Camera, out this month, you can feel the blinding glare of the sun in your eyes, the layer of sweat and dust forming on your skin. It's an impulsive postcard from the late 60s, streaked with sex and sun-beckoning baby oil, and we can't get enough of it.--Alex Beggs VanityFair.com The presentation of the photographs in the book, with faded borders on absentmindedly-developed shots, calls attention to the physicality of the images themselves and gives them a certain familiarity. It is this familiarity that adds interest to the book, showing that the world through the eyes of a legend looks eerily similar to our own.--Sara Cravatts American Photo The collection is a bewitching time capsule of an era.--Hannah Lack Another Magazine


These images, capturing iconic individuals and wide-open Western terrain, create a captivating view of the 60s and 70s that combines political idealism and optimism with California cool.--The Editors loeildelaphotographie.com Damiani's book is a small but revealing slice of Hopper's prodigious photographic output. These snapshots, taken with an Instamatic camera and processed at drugstore photo labs, celebrate the rugged landscape of Taos, New Mexico, where he moved in the late 1960s and is now buried. Surreal still lifes and casual photos of friends capture a free-form counterculture existence in which any division between art and life disappears.--Wendy Smith Sotheby's Magazine The photos themselves are black and white, modestly sized on a letter-size page, and handsomely bound. The hardcover binding is beautifully done with large black stamped letters of the title over a photo on the cover, back, and spine.--Richard Rivera New York Journal of Books The presentation of the photographs in the book, with faded borders on absentmindedly-developed shots, calls attention to the physicality of the images themselves and gives them a certain familiarity. It is this familiarity that adds interest to the book, showing that the world through the eyes of a legend looks eerily similar to our own.--Sara Cravatts American Photo The collection is a bewitching time capsule of an era.--Hannah Lack Another Magazine ...a new book of Dennis's striking photos from his life in Taos.--Kareem Rashed Departures Flipping through the photo album in Drugstore Camera, out this month, you can feel the blinding glare of the sun in your eyes, the layer of sweat and dust forming on your skin. It's an impulsive postcard from the late 60s, streaked with sex and sun-beckoning baby oil, and we can't get enough of it.--Alex Beggs VanityFair.com


The Easy Rider actor-director picked up a camera in 1961 and began a parallel career as a photographer, taking shots on film sets, in diners and out in the landscape, before putting all of his pictures in a vault in the early 70s. A new book, Dennis Hopper: In Dreams publishes more than 100 of them - most of them for the first time - revealing Hopper's restless energy and curiosity.--Guardian The feeling you get from In Dreams is not of failure at all but of the dreamlike ecstasy Hopper found in image-making--the realization, as he put it, that art is everywhere, in every corner that you choose to frame and not just ignore. --Mark Rozzo New Yorker


...a new book of Dennis's striking photos from his life in Taos.--Kareem Rashed Departures These images, capturing iconic individuals and wide-open Western terrain, create a captivating view of the 60s and 70s that combines political idealism and optimism with California cool.--The Editors loeildelaphotographie.com Damiani's book is a small but revealing slice of Hopper's prodigious photographic output. These snapshots, taken with an Instamatic camera and processed at drugstore photo labs, celebrate the rugged landscape of Taos, New Mexico, where he moved in the late 1960s and is now buried. Surreal still lifes and casual photos of friends capture a free-form counterculture existence in which any division between art and life disappears.--Wendy Smith Sotheby's Magazine The photos themselves are black and white, modestly sized on a letter-size page, and handsomely bound. The hardcover binding is beautifully done with large black stamped letters of the title over a photo on the cover, back, and spine.--Richard Rivera New York Journal of Books Flipping through the photo album in Drugstore Camera, out this month, you can feel the blinding glare of the sun in your eyes, the layer of sweat and dust forming on your skin. It's an impulsive postcard from the late 60s, streaked with sex and sun-beckoning baby oil, and we can't get enough of it.--Alex Beggs VanityFair.com The presentation of the photographs in the book, with faded borders on absentmindedly-developed shots, calls attention to the physicality of the images themselves and gives them a certain familiarity. It is this familiarity that adds interest to the book, showing that the world through the eyes of a legend looks eerily similar to our own.--Sara Cravatts American Photo The collection is a bewitching time capsule of an era.--Hannah Lack Another Magazine


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Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) was born in Dodge City, Kansas. He first appeared on television in 1954 and quickly became a cult actor, known for films such as Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Easy Rider (1969), The American Friend (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), Blue Velvet (1986) and Hoosiers (1986). In 1988, he directed the critically acclaimed Colors. Hopper was also a prolific photographer and published now-classic portraits of celebrities such as Andy Warhol and Martin Luther King, Jr. His works are housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.

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