Dennis Stock: Master Photographer

The Observer
A girl dances at the Venice Beach Rock Festival, 1968. "The goal for the photographer," Dennis Stock once wrote, "is to be visually articulate." Born in 1928 in New York City and raised in the South Bronx, Stock's stunning photographic sensibilities first came to national attention at the age of 23 when he won first prize in Life Magazine's Young Photographers' contest.

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