“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, and when you’re shooting what you’re interested in shooting, you’re always going to be happy,” Stock told Magnum photographer Eli Reed’s students.
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Magnum's Dennis Stock, 81
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Dennis Stock, Photographer of Intimate Portraits, Dies at 81 – NYTimes.com
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 all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.”
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Parting Glance: Dennis Stock, 1928-2010 – Lens
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 Ralph Pomeroy wrote in “Contemporary Photographers” (1982)