Dennis Stock, a photographer whose intimate and evocative portraits captured the essence of jazz performance and helped shape James Dean's moody public persona, died Monday in Sarasota, Fla. He was 81. The cause was colon cancer, said the Magnum Photos cooperative, of which Mr. Stock had been a member and mainstay for six decades. Mr. Stock and his...

Before color photography, and long before the computer made colorization easy, hand-painting with oils and dyes on photographic glass plates was a common way to bring black-and-white images to life. Hand-colored photographs had an otherworldly appearance: not quite real, but close enough to suggest an exotic parallel universe. That made them...

A YOUNG man lying in bed seems at peace. You might recognize him, or not, as he is not in a familiar role. He is supposed to wake up but he never does, causing a surge of public sadness. Heath Ledger passed away only Tuesday, but his transformation is already under way, from acclaimed actor to most-searched Internet term, from film star to cultural...
James Byron Dean (8. februar 1931 i Marion, Indiana - 30. september 1955) var en amerikansk skuespiller. Han omkom ved en trafikulykke kort efter indspilningen af filmen Giganten og blev efterfølgende genstand for en voldsom idoldyrkelse.
James Dean optrådte første gang på tv i en reklame for Pepsi Cola i 1950. Kort efter indledte han en filmkarriere, hvor særligt filmene Vildt blod (originaltitel: Rebel without a Cause) og Øst for Paradis (originaltitel East of Eden) gjorde Dean til et ungdomsikon.
James Dean blev den først skuespiller, der efter sin død blev nomineret til en Oscar, nemlig Oscar for bedste mandlige hovedrolle for præstationen i Øst for Paradis. Dean blev året efter atter nomineret til en Oscar for sin rolle i Giganten.