Dennis Hopper. Photographs 19611967

About Jessica HundleyVictor BockrisWalter Hopps

Jessica Hundley is an author filmmaker and journalist. She has written for the likes of Vogue Rolling Stone and The New York Times and has authored books on artists including Dennis Hopper David Lynch and Gram Parsons. Hundley often explores the counterculture in her work with a focus on metaphysics psychedelia and magic. An Englishman who moved to New York in 1973 and became connected to Andy Warhol the Factory and Interview Victor Bockris has written books on Lou Reed Andy Warhol Keith Richards William S. Burroughs Patti Smith and Muhammad Ali. Walter Hopps (19332005) was one of the premier curators of 20th-century art. Cofounder of Los Angeless 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. Dennis Hopper (19362010) was an acclaimed artist actor screenwriter and director who first impressed audiences with his performances in Rebel Without A Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). He changed the face of American cinema with Easy Rider (1969) which he cowrote directed and starred in. Hopper went on to act in hundreds of memorable films and television shows including Apocalypse Now (1979) Blue Velvet (1986) Hoosiers (1986) True Romance (1993) Basquiat (1997) Elegy (2008) and the TV series Crash (2008). Hopper began painting as a child and started taking photos in 1961 after his then wife Brooke Hayward gave him a 35 mm 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.