Dennis Stock

He undertook a series of photos of the actor in Hollywood, Dean's hometown in Indiana, and in New York City.

The black and white picture shows the actor with a pulled up collar on a long coat and a cigarette in his mouth on a rain-soaked, grey day.

From 1957 until the early 1960s, Stock aimed his lens at jazz musicians, photographing such people as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Sidney Bechet, Gene Krupa and Duke Ellington or Miles Davis (see for example, Milestones Cover Photo).

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.

[5] Robert Pattinson portrayed him in the biographical drama film Life (2015), about Stock's friendship with James Dean.

The Photojournalist , portrait of Dennis Stock by Andreas Feininger , 1951. Feininger took this now-iconic photograph for Life magazine, after Stock won first prize in a competition for young photographers.