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 makers.“ 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