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Dennis Hopper, the Man Behind the Lens Most people know Dennis Hopper as the wild-eyed actor of Easy Rider and Blue Velvet. Fewer know that for a stretch in the 1960s he was one of the sharpest observers of American culture with a camera in his hands. The story goes that his first wife, Brooke Hayward, gave him a Nikon in 1961. He took to it immediately, and for the next several years he carried it everywhere, shooting without any particular plan beyond curiosity. He was in the middle of a remarkable moment, and he had the access to prove...