Dennis Stock, 81, 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., of colon cancer.
Stock was one of those photographers whose names are not widely known but whose work is instantly recognizable. Perhaps his most emblematic image, taken in 1955, was that of a young Dean, on the cusp of stardom, walking through the rain in Times Square, shoulders hunched, a cigarette jutting from his mouth.
Two years later he began working on a series of portraits of jazz musicians. They were collected in his book "Jazz Street," published in 1960.
Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr., 29, a prolific songwriter who, under the stage name Jay Reatard, was a force in the worlds of punk and garage rock, was found dead in his home in Memphis early Wednesday.
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