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Dennis Stock, friend and photographer of James Dean, dies at 81

By Claire Noland
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Dennis Stock, a photographer whose iconic images of James Dean helped seal the actor’s legacy after his death in 1955, died Monday in Saratoga, Fla., the Magnum photo agency announced today. He was 81.

Stock shot Dean during the filming of ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ and in the actor’s hometown of Fairmount, Ind. But his best known photo was of Dean walking in the rain in Times Square.

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Stock also documented the hippie lifestyle in the 1960s as well as jazz figures in New Orleans and elsewhere.

A selection of his photos can be seen at the Magnum website here. Have any favorites? Let us know. Later today we’ll have a photo gallery posted at www.latimes.com/obits, along with a full obituary.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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