Dennis Hopper's lost sixties photo album found

More than 400 lost photographs taken by Easy Rider director and actor Dennis Hopper will go on show in the UK for the first time this summer at the Royal Academy of Arts.

The black and white photographs taken in the 1960s, were discovered in a closet along with the Christmas ornaments when his house in LA was cleared after his death in 2010. The photographs, which were taken between 1961 and 1967, include portraits of Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Jane Fonda, and Paul Newman.
Hopper, who acted in films including Apocalypse Now (1979) and Blue Velvet (1986), but is best known as the director of road movie Easy Rider (1969), became obsessed with taking photographs in 1961, when his first wife, Brooke Hayward, gave him a Nikon camera for his birthday, because he couldn’t afford to buy one.
These photographs, which are referred to as The Lost Album, have now been exhibited at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau in 2012 and then at Gagosian New York, in 2013. But until then, these photographs hadn’t seen the light of day since his first ever photography show in Fort Worth, Texas in 1970.

 Warhol, Geldzahler, Hockney, Goodman -1963

Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim at Their Wedding -1965

Ed Ruscha, Printing -1964

Andy Warhol with Flower, Slight Smile -1963

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 James Rosenquist -1964

Roy Lichtenstein -1964

Jean Tinguely -1965

Jasper Johns -1965

Felicia -1971

 Claes Oldenburg with Cake Slices -1966