hyde or die

In this weeks edition of my most indulgent feature, here comes “Book I Really Want, Do Not Have, and Cannot Afford”.

Taschen has come out with a collector’s edition of an extrememly covetable book of one of my fave photographers, Dennis Hopper.

During the 1960s, Dennis Hopper carried a camera everywhere—on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving on freeways and walking on political marches. He photographed movie idols, pop stars, writers, artists, girlfriends, and complete strangers. Along the way he captured some of the most intriguing moments of his generation with a keen and intuitive eye. A reluctant icon at the epicenter of that decade’s cultural upheaval, Hopper documented the likes of Tina Turner in the studio, Andy Warhol at his first West Coast show, Paul Newman on set, and Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. via…

Swooning for days.  However, at a robust $700, I will not be adding it to my collection…YET!!!

February 05, 2010, 3:32pm  

Dennis Hopper Paris Woman 1994

(GPOYW-ish, because I like to pretend that this looks like me)

October 14, 2009, 12:10pm  

» 10 things New York Magazine Learned at Chelsea Openings

1. Artwork has shrunk. Lots of artists are doing work they — or their dealers — hope collectors will pick up, cash-and-carry, like candy bars at the supermarket checkout line. Kehinde Wiley, Raoul de Keyser, Kara Walker, and many others showed more-portable art.

2. Sex still sells. Or draws eyeballs, at least. While most viewers gave two seconds to everything before moving on, Moscow painter Dasha Shishkin’s vivid golden sex scenes at Zach Feuer won long gazes and much discussion.

3. Art loves Hollywood. And vice versa. Dennis Hopper’s exhibition at Shafrazi blended both crowds. Matt Dillon and Sean Penn posed in front of Hopper’s photographs of Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, and the twentieth-century art-world elite. Video monitors poking out of the wall at angles screened Hopper movies. (Larry Gagosian even dropped by the after-party at Indochine.) “I like the show, and there are already pieces I think are very special — the Paul Newman photograph, and the Andy Warhol holding the lily,” Salman Rushdie told us. Nonetheless, he’s probably not buying. “I collect contemporary Indian art,” he said.

Obviously there are 7 more, however I won’t post them because it gets long and you can figure out how to click the above link on your own.

September 16, 2009, 11:07am  

Dennis Hopper Double Standard 1962

March 04, 2009, 12:00pm  

Art crush of the day: Dennis Hopper Double Standard

*I reconnected with an old work colleague that I just adore and she has inspired my crush today.  I am so happy that I remember her email and she still works where she works!

August 20, 2008, 5:36pm  

True story, when I met Dennis Hopper I was wearing Blue Velvet.  

Bonus Trailer of The Day:

Blue Velvet 

Directed by David Lynch

via skeetonmischa

August 17, 2008, 5:22pm  

Roy Lichtenstein photographed by Dennis Hopper.

July 08, 2008, 2:52pm  

I wish I had taken this picture.  Could you ask for better company?

Dennis Hopper, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg (RIP).

*Side note, when I met Dennis Hopper I was wearing blue velvet.

June 18, 2008, 4:15pm  

Robert Rauschenberg dies at 82.  His influence will carry on for generations.

Photo by Dennis Hopper.

viarach.

May 13, 2008, 11:25am