Photographs by Dorothea Lange. Text by Jennifer Greenhill and Julie Ault and Kimberly Juanita Brown and Lauren Kroiz and River Encalada Bullock and Sally Mann and Sam Contis and Sandra Phillips and Wendy Red Star. Editor and Text by Sarah Meister.
Zach Stieneker holds a BA in English and Spanish from Emory University. Following graduation, he spent several months continuing his study of photography in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Zach Stieneker reviews In Dreams, photographs by Dennis Hopper published by Damiani, Italy, 2019.
"Although his work as a visual artist and photographer is lesser known, a line of books assembled from Hopper’s photographic archive, edited and designed by Michael Schmelling, testifies to the late actor’s talent in the medium. The latest, In Dreams, is conceptualized as a throughline, an effort to “connect his roles as photographer, husband, and actor” through a series of images made between 1961 and 1967.
This period, concurrent with a lull in Hopper’s acting career, entails the full extent of his photographic output. His abandonment of photography was as wholehearted as the fervor with which he practiced it. “I was trying to forget…” Hopper confessed in interview, “[t]he photographs represented failure to me. A painful parting from Marin (daughter) and Brooke (ex-wife), my art collection, the house that I lived in and the life that I had known for those eight years.”"—Zach Stieneker Read more
