Dennis Stock

From The New York Times: Mr. Stock was one of those photographers whose names are not widely known but whose work is instantly recognizable. Perhaps his most emblematic image, taken in 1955, was that of a young Dean, on the cusp of stardom, walking through the rain in Times Square, shoulders hunched, a cigarette jutting from his mouth. Two years later he began working on a series of portraits of jazz musicians. They were collected in his book Jazz Street, published in 1960 with a text by Nat Hentoff. He has managed to evoke jazz without the assistance of sound its places, its atmosphere, its times, its the critic and essayist Ralph Pomeroy wrote in Contemporary Photographers (1982). Mr. Stock was himself the subject of a memorable portrait, by Andreas Feininger, in which he held a camera to his spotlighted face so that the lens appeared to be his right eye and the viewfinder his left eye. I always considered his work br, br,