Dennis Stock: CALIFORNIA—Venice Beach Rock Festival, 1968.
“I’ve never taken an assignment,” Mr. Stock said last year during an address to photojournalism students at the University of Texas. “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.”
Dennis Stock, photographer of James Dean, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Marylin Monroe, other celebrities and cultural moments, was born July 24, 1928, in the Bronx, N.Y, and died in January 11, 2009 in Sarasota, Florida. A slide show of his work can be found here.
Via Magnum Photos.
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