Link: “I’ve never taken an assignment,” Stock said when he addressed a gathering of photojournalism students at the University of Texas in Austin’s School of Journalism in 2009. “I’ve always photographed what I wanted to be photographing, and then worried about selling the pictures or doing something with them afterwards. I’ve always shot for myself,…
Dennis Stock, Photographer of Intimate Portraits, Dies at 81 Mr. Stock was a photographer whose intimate and evocative portraits captured the essence of jazz performance and helped shape James Dean’s moody public persona. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/arts/design/15stock.html?partner=rss&emc=rss “The goal for the photographer is to be visually articulate. If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is…
Parting Glance: Dennis Stock, 1928-2010 Dennis Stock, whose photographs may have done almost as much to create James Dean’s public persona as the actor’s own performances, died Monday in Florida. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/parting-4/ “Dennis Stock seems impeccably contemporary in his perceptions, whether they be of splendid nature or ‘peccable’ humanity,” the critic and essayist…
