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James Dean in New York City by Dennis Stock 📸

After watching a preview of James Dean in East of Eden, photographer Dennis Stock became fascinated with the actor’s talent. Stock wanted to know where Dean had come from, proposing a visual biography of his humble origins in Fairmount, Indiana – a radical approach to documenting a celebrity at the time.

Through this deeply personal journey, along with the photographs taken in Hollywood and New York City, Stock was able to offer a uniquely intimate insight into a life on the brink of stardom.

Stock's 1955 photograph of James Dean in Times Square is available as a limited-edition estate-stamped editions poster: https://bit.ly/3WqYOYx

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