My journey ends here...
STOCK Dennis
Date of birth : July 24, 1928, New York.
Date of death : January 11, 2010, Sarasota, Florida.
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His parents were Fred (born in 1892, Switzerland), and Fannie (February 8, 1892, England-March 1987).
He served in the United States Army from 1947 to 1951.
Folllowing 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 he met the actor James Dean and undertook a series of photos of the young star in Hollywood,
Dean's hometown in Indiana (
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black and white photograph shows the actor with a pulled up collar on
casual jacket and acigarette in his mouth on a rain-soaked, grey day (
).From 1957 until the early 1960s, he aimed his lens at jazz musicians, photographing such people as Louis
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In 1962, he received the first prize at the International Photo Competition in Poland.
In 1968 he left Magnum to start his own film company, Visual Objectives Inc., and made several documentaries, but he returned to the agency a year later, as vice president for new media and film.
In the mid-1970s, he traveled to Japan and the Far East and also produced numerous features series, such as photographs of contrasting regions like Hawaii and Alaska.
In the 1970s and 1980s he focused on color photography of nature and landscape, and returned to his urban roots in the 1990s, focusing on architecture and modernism.
In 2006 he married writer Susan Richards; they lived in Woodstock, New York.
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He took pictures during the shootings "There's No Business Like Show Business" in 1954
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