Eyewitness - 29 January 2010
A sideways look at the Quaker world
End of two legends Eye was sad to see the demise of the American photographer Dennis Stock at the age of eighty-one. Stock took pictures of film stars and jazz musicians but the shots Eye loved were the ones he took of James Dean, legendary mixed-up young man whose career he followed pictorially. Fifty years after Dean’s death in a car crash in 1955 Stock produced a retrospective album of the actor and we ran a story and pictures. James Dean, of course, was a Quaker boy, raised by his aunt and uncle who were members of the Back Creek Friends Church in Indiana.
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