Coffee Table Book - Dennis Hopper: Colors, The PolaroidsHopper's color Polaroids of LA's gang graffiti After losing himself in Taos, New Mexico, for 15 years, Dennis Hopper (19362010) returned to Los Angeles in the mid 80s. In 1987, on the verge of directing Colors, Hopper made use of a Polaroid camera to document gang graffiti in Los Angeles. He was particularly drawn to the abstract shapes of overlapping paint that appeared when graffiti had been covered up or written over, reminding him, he said, that