Dennis Hopper: Famed Actor & Leica Photog Dead

[35mmdelux]

Here: http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/05/29/obit.dennis.hopper1/index.html?hpt=C1

RIP & thanks for all the photos -

 

[Michael Markey]

Reported here on the BBC news tonight. Very sad.

 

[ItsReallyDarren]

read about this passing this morning but did not know he was a photographer as well. RIP

 

[fotomeow]

One of my heros, RIP. Hopper says of James Dean, "a guerrilla artist who attacked all restrictions on his sensibility. ... I imitated his style in art and in life. It got me in a lot of trouble," Hopper recalled.
Let us continue the tradition ..............

 

[Roger Hicks]

The rivers fall to the ocean's core
And the mountains fall to the sky...

(Cath Milne)

Cheers,

R.

 

[semilog]

Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll, uh, well, you'll say hello to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you, and he won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say do you know that if is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you... I mean I'm no, I can't – I'm a little man. I'm a little man. He's - he's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas. I mean – Hey, uh, don't go... don't go without me, OK? I want to get a picture. He can be terrible, he can be mean, he can be right. He's fighting the war. He's a great man. I mean... I wish I had words. I can tell you the other day he wanted to kill me, because I took his picture. He said if I take his picture again – I'm gonna kill you. And he meant it! So you just lay it cool, lay back, dig it... he gets friendly again, really does. But you don't judge him like an ordinary man.

 

[35mmdelux]

played the photographer in Apocalypse Now!

 

[Tom A]

He did wonders for the sales of Nikon F's in Apocalypse Now. Draped with multiple bodies - and, supposedly stoned out his mind (by his own admission).
Great actor and personality. As they say - They dont make them like that anymore!
RIP

 

[Steve Bellayr]

For those who do not know he was also a photographer and art collector.

 

[rlouzan]

The last time I saw him on TV was on the fabulous documentary 3055 Jean Leon.

RIP

 

[gb hill]

He was truly one of the best actors ever to grace Hollywood! Does anyone have his book? Here are a few photos he took.
http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/cat...facts.dennis_hopper_photographs_1961_1967.htm

 

[CameraQuest]

In 1988 Hopper had a B/W exhibition in a small Thai restaurant off Hollywood Blvd. There were no signs in the window about the exhibit. You just walked in to have lunch and started noticing all these 8x10 B/W framed prints on the walls. On taking a closer look, his signature surprised the viewers. Nice people pics.

Stephen

 

[Austerby]

Another one of the greats has been gathered

 

[aizan]

out of the blue, and into the black. 🙁

 

[ramosa]

i knew he directed movies (as well as acted in them), but didn't know he was a leica man. good to hear.

 

[parsec1]

Gone to 'smell the napalm in the morning'
Memorial day and 'Rolling Thunder' weekend.
My Respects to all who served.


"By Strength and Guile"

 

[gdi]

If I had known earlier I would have passed the Heineken by and stocked up on Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!

Fabulous actor and I enjoy his 60's photos of his celebrity buddies.

 

[shyoon]

I remember when I was in Melbourne earlier, ACMI had a Dennis Hopper exhibition, showcasing his involvement in both cinema and photography. I wasn't willing to pay the admission price at the time, so I didn't bother. Kind of regret that decision now.

RIP

 

[oldoc]

God rest his soul
He suffered greatly from prostate cancer with bone metastasis.
Pain is now relieved, thank God...

 

[ReeRay]

A sixties icon for sure.

God Bless - R.I.P.