Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967
Photographer:Dennis Hopper(1936-2010) was an acclaimed artist, actor, screenwriter, and director who first impressed audiences with his performances inRebel Without A Cause(1955) andGiant(1956). He changed the face of American cinema withEasy Rider(1969),  which he co-wrote, directed, and starred in. Hopper went on to act in  hundreds of memorable films and television shows, includingApocalypse Now(1979),Blue Velvet(1986),Hoosiers(1986),True Romance(1993),Basquiat(1997),Elegy(2008), and the TV seriesCrash(2008).  Hopper began painting as a child and started taking photos in  1961, after his then wife Brooke Hayward gave him a 35mm Nikon camera  for his birthday. His paintings and photography have been exhibited all  over the world, including the recent retrospective, "Dennis Hopper and  the New Hollywood" in Paris. Dennis Hopper passed away May 29, 2010 in  Venice, CA.Contributing authors:An Englishman who moved to New York in 1973 and became connected to Andy Warhol, the Factory, andInterview,Victor Bockrishas written books on Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Keith Richards, William S. Burroughs, Patti Smith, and Muhammad Ali.Walter Hopps(1933-2005) was one of the premier curators of 20th century art.  Co-founder of Los Angeles’s Ferus Gallery and director of the Pasadena  Museum of Art, he was responsible for the first retrospectives of Kurt  Schwitters, Joseph Cornell, and Marcel Duchamp. A key advocate of  American Pop art, his 1962 survey "New Painting of Common Objects"was  the first of its kind. After directing the Washington Gallery of Modern  Art, he went on to build the Menil Collection museum in Houston and  became its founding director in 1987.A filmmaker and frequently published art, music and film journalist,Jessica Hundleyhas directed several documentaries and recently completed her second book, a biography of country-rock legend Gram Parsons.Editor and author:Born in Abadan, Iran, to Armenian parents,Tony Shafraziwas  educated in England from age 13, graduating from the Royal College of  Art in 1967. Moving to New York in 1969, he exhibited as a conceptual  artist throughout Europe and New York. From 1974–78, he advised and  helped build an outstanding  collection for the Museum of Contemporary  Art in Tehran. In 1979, he opened his New York gallery, introducing  groundbreaking American artists of the ’80s including Haring, Basquiat,  Scharf, Brown, and Baechler, while exhibiting masters of the ’60s:  Warhol, Ruscha, and Hopper. From 1990, he exhibited the work of Brian  Clarke, Patrick Demarchelier, Robert Williams, Michael Ray Charles, and  David LaChapelle. Since 1997 he has represented the Estate of Francis  Bacon, and continues  to mount museum-quality exhibitions, most recently  the critically acclaimed "Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns?"