Dennis Stock Hardcover

Dennis Stock

With three major films - East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant - all released within a year of each other and within months of his tragic death, James Dean captured the world's imagination and has never let it go. Magnum photographer Dennis Stock met James Dean in 1954, and they became fast friends. Stock captured Dean's essence in a stunning series of images of the actor in the midst of family and friends, as well as alone, sleeping, lost in thought, in the frozen fields of Indiana, and on a rainy day in Manhattan. It was an extraordinary collaboration between two people in full command of their respective talents. In the words of the Life magazine article that accompanied the first publication of these photographs, James Dean was 'the most exciting actor to hit Hollywood since Marlon Brando', but at the time these photographs were taken, he was still poised on the brink of fame. James Dean reintroduces these iconic photographs, taken at the dawn and high noon of a brief and brilliant career, with Dennis Stock's original accompanying text and a later introduction by Joe Hyams.

9780500544518

English

Thames And Hudson Ltd

26/Oct/15

144

Dennis Stock (1928-2010) was born in New York City. He was a member of Magnum Photos from 1951 until his death in 2010. He was also a writer, director and producer for television and film and his photographs are in the collections of many major museums and galleries. J

A moving catalogue documenting a young man on the verge of global fame' - Amateur Photographer 'The unlikely friendship between Dean and Stock was recently made into a film, with Robert Pattinson as Stock. This is better' - The Times