(Image caption: USA. NYC. 1953. American photographer Dennis Stock. by Erich Hartmann)

Filmmaker David Snyder had recorded hours of interviews with photographer <a href='http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL53ZKDJ' target='_blank'>Dennis Stock</a> (1928-2010). Among the many stories that Stock had told about his own photographic adventures, Snyder cut a 12 minute edit concentrating on the former's relationship with one of his most famous subjects, <a href='http://www.magnumphotos.com/Folder/2S5RYDW45SFQ' target='_blank'>James Dean</a>, who would have turned 85 today.
Having seen the 2015 feature film "Life", a dramatic telling of Stock's 1955 James Dean story for Life Magazine, and not agreeing with the depiction of the Stock-Dean relationship, Snyder thought to use Dennis' own account to set the record straight.

<a href='http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/james-dean-dennis-stock-life-lens-photos/?_r=0' target='_blank'>Click here</a> to watch the video on New York Times Lens Blog.