CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/3/2015

Dennis Hopper: Drugstore Camera

"Traveling by car is the only way to get around if you live in sunny California. In 1969, I got to drive with my dad, his then-girlfriend, a willowy Native-American beauty named Felicia, our friends Bob and Toby Rafelson and their kids, Julie and Peter, to a seemingly faraway place called Taos, N.M. My father had discovered Taos during one of his many scouting trips for Easy Rider, which he had shot the year before. My dad was 32. I was 6." So begins Marin Hopper's humbly glamorous essay in Damiani's new collection of her father's photographs made in and around Taos, New Mexico, in the 1960s and 70s. Made with disposable cameras and developed in drugstore labs, these black-and-white photographs capture friends, family, flirtations and the wide-open southwestern landscape. Astonishingly, they are published here for the first time. Join Marin Hopper and Vanity Fair Deputy Editor Mark Rozzo for a discussion of the work at the Strand Bookstore Thursday, June 4th at 7PM.