In Dennis Hopper’s photographs, Terry Southern is just a guy smoking a cigarette. The gentleman with his back turned, inspecting a wall of paintings, turns out to be Jasper Johns. The bride hiking up her wedding dress to adjust her garter is Jane Fonda.
”—an L.A. streetscape seen through a car windshield—is in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection.Whatever the occasion or assignment, Hopper always seemed to be shooting for himself, satisfying an insatiable eye. A new collection, “” , edited by the photographer Michael Schmelling, to whom Marin Hopper granted unlimited access to the archive, zeroes in on the idea of Hopper as an idiosyncratic, compulsive collector of visual experience.
The couple married that fall. In the spring of 1963, the two bought a house at 1712 North Crescent Heights Boulevard, in the Hollywood Hills, and went about filling it with Warhols, Lichtensteins, Rauschenbergs, and campy Art Nouveau goodies. The house became a gathering place for an indelible cultural moment, a way station for Andy Warhol, Terry Southern, Ike and Tina Turner, and Black Panthers.There’s an old adage that great subjects make a great photographer.
Wim Wenders said of Hopper that if “he’d only been a photographer, he’d be one of the great photographers of the twentieth century.” As successive collections of Hopper’s archived photographs become available, it becomes easier to say that Hopper was, at the least, a compelling, important, and weirdly omnipresent chronicler of his times. After “Easy Rider” and amid divorce, Hopper put away his Nikon and moved on. “I was trying to forget,” he later said.
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