With three major films
- East of Eden Rebel Without a Cause & Giant
- all released within a year of each other & within months of his tragic death James Dean captured the world's imagination & has never let it go Magnum photographer Dennis Stock met James Dean in 1954 & they became fast friends Stock captured Dean's essence in a stunning series of images of the actor in the midst of family & friends as well as alone sleeping lost in thought in the frozen fields of Indiana & on a rainy day in Manhattan It was an extraordinary collaboration between two people in full command of their respective talents In the words of the Life magazine article that accompanied the first publication of these photographs James Dean was 'the most exciting actor to hit Hollywood since Marlon Brando' but at the time these photographs were taken he was still poised on the brink of fame James Dean reintroduces these iconic photographs taken at the dawn & high noon of a brief & brilliant career with Dennis Stock's original accompanying text & a later introduction by Joe Hyams