Dennis Hopper, In Dreams
through March 21, 2020 -Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
www.faheykleingallery.com
Dennis Hopper, In Dreams, an exhibition in conjunction with the newly published book of the same name by Damiani.
Filmmaker and actor Dennis Hopper, in the role of artist and collector he worked and socialized with the artistic avant-garde and dedicated more than five decades of his life to artistic expression exploring the mediums of photography, painting, sculpture, film, and installation. His first show of photographs, which makes up the "Lost Album" today, was held at the Ft. Worth Museum in the early 1970's - and became a legendary exhibition. As a photographer, his output was particularly concentrated in the 1960s; the Nikon camera his wife Brooke Hayward gifted him hung so prominently around his neck that friends jokingly called him "the tourist."
Before his passing he remarked, "while people will always remember me as an actor and for Easy Rider - I want to be remembered as a photographer, not just as an actor who took pictures".