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| Dennis Hopper, Selma, Alabama (Full Employment), 1965, Silver gelatin print. Collection Dennis Hopper, Los Angeles © Dennis Hopper. |
The New Myths of Hollywood
Encouraged by his mentor James Dean, Dennis Hopper began taking photographs in the late 1950s. Never without his camera, Hopper was witness to and documented the tumultuous 1960s, when social upheaval and cultural revolution were changing the face of America. His photographs captured the new mythology that was born in Hollywood at this time, and immortalised figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Tina Turner, Robert Rauschenberg, and James Brown, who became legends of their time.
Having more recently re-worked these photographs into larger-than-life billboard paintings, Hopper's images depict a time of chaos and dreams, and tell the story of a long-gone world where utopia still seemed possible.
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