Beyond Iconic Photographer Dennis Stock (2011)

James Dean walks down Broadway his shoulders hunched against the drizzle The greatest legends of jazz from Louis Armstrong to the cool Miles Davis are caught in some of their most passionate or private moments Epitomizing the spirit of 1960s counterculture a hippie plays a flute as he walks along all his earthly belongings in a backpack Lost in her own thoughts for a moment Audrey Hepburn sits pensive between takes Images capture the subdued beauty of a Provence winter Like an abstract painting the sun appears as a point of light behind a window coated thickly with frost Modern architecture captured as an almost scifi fantasy an environment so artificial that it is sublimely beautiful All of these images came from the eye mind and camera of Dennis Stock 19282010 one of the most influential chroniclers of the late 20th century