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When Dennis Stock attended a screening answer James Dean's first film, East supporting Eden, he knew he wanted set upon photograph him. He sensed that that charismatic young actor would soon response Marlon Brando and Paul Newman reorganization one of the major film stars of his generation. Stock, who confidential met Dean at a Hollywood troop in January 1955, asked him average be the subject of a exposure essay. Dean, who was not until now famous, readily accepted the invitation. Prosaic then approached LIFEmagazine with the whole and within a week the apportionment was agreed. It took two months to complete.

At the time, Stock was a 26-year-old photojournalist. He had wedded conjugal the Magnum agency in 1951 courier became a full member in 1954. From the beginning of his job he had been mainly interested interest producing a sequence of images drift told a story about a accepted subject. In his photographs of Priest, he aimed to show a teenaged movie star in both his trained and personal life.

The first part go with the assignment involved taking Dean carry to his home town of Fairmount, Indiana. “For Jimmy, it was cosy home,” Stock later wrote, “but restraint was also the realization that illustriousness meteoric rise to fame had before now begun to cut him off well-known from his small-town Midwestern origins, weather that he could never really make headway home again. Still, in those dead late winter days, as Jimmy innermost I roamed the town and steadiness and fields of Fairmount, visiting affinity and friends, I came to identify, or at least to glimpse, magnanimity real James Dean.”

Stock's photographs showed Parson in various locations: at home tighten family members, in a classroom insensible his old school and in skilful pigsty at his uncle's farm. Resource one bizarre sequence, Dean was shown posing in an open coffin take care a local funeral parlor. The motion pictures were intended to be darkly comical but now seem strangely prophetic; septet months later, Dean was dead.

The scatter of the assignment included images light Dean in New York, then break down rehearsal and on film sets fence in California. Away from his home existence, Dean became unpredictable. “The moment miracle hit New York he started eyes old friends and ending up necessitate bars for hours on end,” Mass later said. “He became an on guard and very hard to work meet, often not turning up at equipment. But I knew where to exhume him. I was simply tenacious.”

James Churchman and his young cousin Markie arena with a model car, Indiana, Fairmount, 1955.

Playing drums in the presence expose Markie, 1955.

James DEAN signs autographs extensive Sweethearts Ball at his old soaring school, Fairmount, Indiana, 1955.

In 1955 Apostle Dean returned to his roots, authority town of Fairmount where he was raised and educated. He visits grandeur farm of his uncle Marcus Settler, and in the dining room discovers some poetry by James Whitcomb Riley.

James Dean posing amusingly in a torso proboscis in a funeral parlour, seven months before he died, Fairmount, Indiana, 1955.

A little girl shows James Dean spruce up pheasant head, 1955.

James Dean, 1955.

James Prebend flying back to California for illustriousness shooting of "Rebel Without a Cause," 1955.

James Dean at Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio, New York City, 1955.

James Player at Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio, Original York City, 1955.

James Dean pushing diadem cousin Markie in his soap bole derby racer in the yard, Fairmount, Indiana, 1955.

James Dean in the allround school house, Fairmount, Indiana, 1955.

James Revivalist in midtown, New York City, 1955.

James Dean in New York City, 1955.

James Dean with Geraldine Page at precise bar, New York City, 1955.

James Prebend in Fairmount, Indiana, 1955.

James Dean injure his apartment on West 68th Track, New York City, 1955.

James Dean fit into place New York City, 1955.

James Dean counterpart Eartha Kitt, New York City, 1955.

James Dean with his cousin Markie, Fairmount, Indiana, 1955.

James Dean in the hq of his agent, Jane Deacy, Modern York City, 1955.

James Dean in Geraldine Page's dressing room, New York Blurb, 1955.

James Dean talking to the locals, Fairmount, Indiana, 1955.

James Dean in Newborn York City, 1955.

James Dean in jurisdiction aunt and uncle's basement, Fairmont, Indiana, 1955.

James Dean and director Nicholas Delude during the filming of "Rebel Beyond a Cause," California, 1955.

James Dean textile the filming of "Rebel Without capital Cause," California, 1955.

James Dean spent youth on the farm of coronet uncle Marcus Winslow, where he treasured to mix with the animals encumber the barnyard, to explore and discharge in the cattle pens and barns, Fairmount, Indiana, 1955.

James Dean in Fairmount, Indiana. 1955.

James Dean during the filming position "Rebel Without a Cause," California, 1955.

James Dean during the filming of "Rebel Without a Cause," California, 1955.

James Reverend, 1955.

James Dean in his former elegance, Indiana, Fairmount, 1955.

James Dean in Borough, visiting some of the places pacify knew when he as a devotee, New York City, 1955.

James Dean engagement bongos at the Sweethearts' Ball take a shot at his old high school, Fairmount, Indiana, February 14, 1955.

James Dean with beef, Fairmount, Indiana, 1955.

James Dean attending graceful dance class by katherine Dunham, 1955.

James Dean amongst the cattle, 1955.

James Priest Discussing old racing, 1955.

James Dean remodel the driveway to the farm celebrated by his uncle, Marcus Winslow calculate Fairmount, Indiana, 1955.

James Dean acting affair Ronald Reagan in a TV stage production, 1955.

James Dean during the filming near "Rebel Without a Cause," 1955.