<p>The photographer Dennis Stock, <a href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/dennis-stock-james-dean-photographer-445/" target="_blank">died recently</a> aged 81. As so often with camera giants we probably don't know the name but by God do we remember the photographs. Stock is famous for two shots above all. One is the picture of James Dean walking through a rainy New York, a wonderful portrait of both the man and the city.</p>
<p>The other picture for which he's famous -- though there are many more that deserve praise -- was of a Venice Beach rock festival back in 1968: a hippie chick in a loose dress, back to the camera, dancing in front of the crowd. The spirit of the time captured in an instant. You can see them both in <a href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/parting-4/" target="_blank">a wonderful slide show in the New York Times obituary here</a> -- the first and third shots.</p>
<p>Wonderful pictures. Makes me wish you could write in black and white.</p>