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Dennis Stock was born in 1928 in New York City. At the age of 17, he left home to join the United States Navy. In 1947, he became an apprentice to Life magazine photographer Gjon Mili and won first prize in Life’s Young Photographers contest. He joined Magnum Photos in 1951 and became a full member in 1954.

Stock managed to evoke the spirit of America through his memorable and iconic portraits of Hollywood stars, most notably James Dean. From 1957 to 1960, Stock made lively portraits of jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sidney Bechet, Gene Krupa and Duke Ellington for his book Jazz Street. In 1968, Stock took a leave of absence from Magnum to create Visual Objectives, a film production company, and he shot several documentaries. In the late 1960s, he captured the attempts of California hippies to reshape society according to ideals of love and caring. Then, throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he worked on color books, emphasizing the beauty of nature through details and landscape.  In the 1990s, he went back to his urban origins, exploring the modern ar

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Dennis Stock


Dennis Stock (July 24, 1928 – January 11, 2010) was an American photojournalist and documentary photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. He was born in New York City and died in Sarasota, Florida. Stock served in the United States Army from 1947-1951. Following his discharge, he apprenticed under photographer Gjon Mili. In 1951, he won a first prize in a Life magazine competition for young photographers. That same year, he became an associate member of the photography agency Magnum. He became a full partner-member in 1954. In 1955, Stock met the actor James Dean and undertook a series of photos of the young star in Hollywood, Dean's hometown in Indiana and in New York City. He took a photograph of Dean in New York's Times Square in 1955 (the year Dean died) that became an iconic image of the young star. It appeared later in numerous galleries and on postcards and posters and was one of the most reproduced photographs of the post-war period. The black and white photograph shows the actor with a pulled up collar on a casual jacket and a cigarette in his mouth on a r
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Thanks to the kind permission of Magnum Photos and particularly the invaluable help of Lorenza Bravetta, Tosetti Value S.I.M. has organized a temporary exhibition for its clients and associates of a number of Dennis Stock’s classic portraits, a veritable illustrated biography of the legendary James Dean.
Apprenticed under the masterly Gjon Mili, in 1951 Dennis Stock won first prize in a Life magazine competition with a photo reportage on the arrival of East German immigrants in New York. The same year he was invited by Robert Capa to become a member of Magnum Photos.   It would be the beginning of a career characterized by extraordinary humanity.
Dennis Stock and James Dean met in 1955 through director Nicholas Ray. The icon of “disaffected youth” had just finished filming East of Eden, and invited Stock to attend the preview in a Santa Monica theatre.
Entranced by James Dean’s performance, the Magnum photographer recognized the inspiration for a new work in the talented young actor, and James agreed to let the photog

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