Dennis Stock managed to evoke the spirit of America through his memorable portraits of James Dean, whom he met in Hollywood in 1955 and photographed there as well as on his family farm in Indiana. He was born and educated in New York City. While assisting Gjon Mili, he won first prize in Life Magazine's Young Photographers Contest for his Lewis Hine-inspired picture of the arrival of Eastern G
...see more »ermany refugees in New York's Harbor. From 1957 to 1960, Stock made lively and intimate portraits of jazz and blues performers. His evocations of musicians such as Satchmo, Billie Holiday, Sydney Bechet, Gene Krupa and Duke Ellington won him first prize in the International Photography Competition in Poland and were published as a volume, Jazz Street. In the late 1960s he reported on California, at that time on the hippies and their attempts to reshape society with their ideals of love and caring. Over the 1970s and 1980s, Stock, based in Woodstock, New York, and Provence, France, and frequently traveling to Italy, has mostly pursued the making of color books that emphasize nature's beauty through details and landscape. In the 1990s he returned to his urban origins exploring the modern architecture of large cities.« see less
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