Stunning Black and White Celebrity Photographs Taken by Dennis Hopper in the 1960s

Jean Tinguely, 1963

Dennis Hopper (1936–2010) is a cult figure. One would be hard-pressed to find anyone who better represents the emotionally charged era of the Sixties cultural revolution. He was gifted, self-assured, and radical – “the definitive Hollywood rebel,” a protagonist of the provocative, eccentric, and excessive. Hopper was an actor, director, and author –sometimes all at once, as in Easy Rider (1969), The Last Movie (1971), or Out of the Blue (1980).

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John Altoon, 1964

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.

Tuesday Weld, 1965

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.

Robert Irwin, 1962

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.

James Rosenquist (with Brunette Billboard, Vertical), 1964

Robert Rauschenberg, 1966

Larry Bell, 1964

Niki de Saint Phalle, 1963

Andy Warhol, 1963

Ike and Tina Turner, 1965

Bruce Conner (in tub), Toni Basil, Teri Garr and Ann Marshall, 1965

Andy Warhol and members of the Factory (Gregory Markopoulos, Taylor Mead, Gerard Malanga, Jack Smith), 1963

Llyn Foulkes, 1964

Robert Fraser in Tijuana, Mexico, 1965

Jane Fonda with bow and arrow, Malibu, 1965

Irving Blum and Peggy Moffit, 1964

The Byrds, 1965

Ed Ruscha, 1964

Paul Newman, 1964

Roy Lichtenstein, 1964

Jasper Johns, 1965

James Rosenquist, 1964

James Brown, 1964

Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, David Hockney and Jeff Goodman, 1963

Brian Jones, 1965

Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim at their wedding in Las Vegas, 1964

Martin Luther King Jr., 1965

Virginia Dwan, 1964

David Hemmings

The Grateful Dead, 1967