Roy Schatt EUA, 1909-2002
James Dean in Window with Cigarette, ABC Studios, New York City, 1954
Silver gelatin photograph
35.6 x 45.7 cm
14 x 18 in
14 x 18 in
© 1954 Roy Schatt / Courtesy Fundación AMMA
Photo: Sergio Ortiz
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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 published in the book James Dean: A Portrait, which includes some of the actor’s most well-known portraits 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.