CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/4/2015

Dennis Hopper: Drugstore Camera

"My father, Dennis Hopper, believed that being on the road in search of something was very American. You had to keep moving forward no matter what. Ride into town, gunfight at high noon, then off into the sunset. Easy Rider, he said, was really a western with motorcycles instead of horses: bad boys, bikers and beads." So begins Marin Hopper's low-key but riveting 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 well before the current-day developers caught on. 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 tonight at 7PM.