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Exhibitions

Had Hollywood not lured him away, Dennis Hopper could have made his name as a photographer

Plus: the Royal Academy’s Radical Geometry show offers a bit of Op, a bit of clever interior design and a bit of Blue Peter

19 July 2014

9:00 AM

19 July 2014

9:00 AM

Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album

Royal Academy, Burlington Gardens, until 19 October

Radical Geometry

Royal Academy, until 28 September

In an age when photographs have swollen out of all proportion to their significance, and are mounted on wall-sized light boxes the better to show off their high-resolution colour, it’s a relief to see an exhibition of small photographic prints in good old black and white. Dennis Hopper (1936–2010) is best known as an actor and hell-raiser, but he was also an artist who worked in various media.

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