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DENNIS STOCK (1928-2010)
James Dean:A Memorial Portfolio.
With 10 (of 10) photographs. Silver prints,
8
1
/
2
x12 inches (21.6x30.5 cm.), and the reverse, each with Stock’s initials
and edition notation 3/125, in pencil, and his copyright hand stamp, on
print verso, and with his signature and edition notation, in pencil, on the
overmat. Large folio, leatherette; the colophon also with the edition
notation; contents clean, bright, and loose as issued.
NUMBER
3
OF
125
COPIES
. Penguin Books and TheViking Press, 1955; printed 1978
[7,000/10,000]
From the Douglas Kenyon Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; to a Private Collector,
circa 1980.
Dean was killed in a car crash in 1955, the year Magnum photographer
Dennis Stock met the actor and produced a story about him for LIFE
magazine. The portfolio was issued as a tribute. A printed sheet lists a
number of Dean’s quotes including: “There is a level somewhere where
everything is solid and important. I’m going to reach up there and find a
place I know is pretty close to perfect.”