Dennis Stock
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"Dennis Stock" was an United States/American photojournalism/photojournalist and documentary photography/documentary photographer and a member of Magnum Photos.

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It was pretty easy to work with Dean in Indiana. He was relaxed enough there. Besides, we both found we had the same sense of humor and we deepened the friendship.

Dean perfected adolescent angst.

I realized what a special actor he was, so I proposed to Life magazine to do a visual biography on Dean, who exemplified the kind of actors who were starting to become popular back then.

I really wasn't-how shall I say it-singly interested in Dean, but I was interested in the origins of a person who does such a style of acting.

For each new generation of teenagers, Dean offers sympathetic personas of youth struggling to carve out their identities. That's why his popularity goes on and on.

I did not know anything about his history as an actor in New York. He was a total stranger to me. He was very low-key.

It was the picture that I buried for so many years, but interestingly enough, that picture now is used more often. Because he makes himself look like [he's] suffering.

It was his idea. I told him I didn't like it but ... Dean insisted, `Shoot,'.