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Dennis Hopper Colors: The Polaroids (Hardcover)
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Dennis Hopper Colors: The Polaroids (Hardcover)
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Hopper's color Polaroids of LA's gang graffiti After losing himself
in Taos, New Mexico, for 15 years, Dennis Hopper (1936-2010)
returned to Los Angeles in the mid-'80s. In 1987, on the verge of
directing Colors, Hopper made use of a Polaroid camera to document
gang graffiti in Los Angeles. He was particularly drawn to the
abstract shapes of overlapping paint that appeared when graffiti
had been covered up or written over, reminding him, he said, "that
art is everywhere in every corner that you choose to frame and not
just ignore and walk by." The Polaroids presented for the first
time in this book are proof of that observation. Hopper firmly
considered himself an "abstract expressionist and action painter by
nature, and a Duchampian finger pointer by choice," subscribing
wholeheartedly to the idea that "the artist of the future will
merely point his finger and say it's art--and it will be art." In
turning the instantaneous, disposable nature of the medium of
Polaroid film into pictures as deliberate and final as an image
achieved by an artist painting on canvas, these images represent
the first part of Hopper's journey back to the world of
photography, picking up where he had left off so many years before.
This book is in many ways a companion to Drugstore Camera (2015),
also edited and designed by Michael Schmelling, which presented
Hopper's personal photographs taken in Taos, New Mexico.
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