Roy Schatt EUA, 1909-2002
James Dean Smoking, New York City, 1954
Silver gelatin photograph / Fotografía de gelatina de plata
45.1 x 35.6 cm
17 3/4 x 14 in
17 3/4 x 14 in
© 1954 Roy Schatt / Cortesía Fundación AMMA
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In December 1954, after the filming of East of Eden, Elia Kazan’s film that definitively established James Dean as a star, Roy Schatt, the official photographer of the Actors Studio, photographed him on the streets of New York. The series was later collected in the book James Dean: A Portrait, which includes some of the actor’s most iconic images and also serves as a portrait of the city. Less than a year later, in September 1955, Dean would die in a car accident, passing directly from star to myth.