-
DENNIS HOPPER: A TOURIST (PUBLISHED IN KYOTO)
(HOPPER, DENNIS). Hopper, Dennis & Shintaro Katsu. Kyoto, JAPAN: File, Inc., 1994. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine.. np (40pp), 29 b&w illustrations. Designed by Koichi Fujikawa. Text in English and Japanese. With a filmography and exhibition history. "Dennis Hopper: A Tourist (Published in Kyoto)" is a slender, elegantly produced softbound publication issued in conjunction with a 1994 exhibition of the renowned late actor/director/artist's photographs taken during his visits to Tokyo and Kyoto in the early nineties. Published as a very limited print run only in Japan, it contains beautifully composed images of la vie quotidienne au Japon seen through the fresh eyes and lens of a talented gaijin, and features brief, original textual contributions by Hopper as well as Zatoichi portrayer Shintaro Katsu. A handsome example of what is perhaps the single most uncommon document of Dennis Hopper's visual artistic output showing a mild soft crease through the upper foredge corner. Inventory Number: 025994