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Like a restless ghost, James Dean (1921-1955) continues to haunt us. Though he died nearly 50 years ago, the enigmatic star of East of Eden, Rebel without a Cause, and Giant still symbolizes the mystery and torment of adolescence-an image that his sudden, violent death fixed forever in the public mind.
Magnum photographer Dennis Stock met Dean in Hollywood in 1954 and began to capture him on camera. Shot over a three-month period just as the young actor's star began to rise, these iconic photographs are the greatest pictures ever taken of Dean. Together with Stock's text and an introduction by Dean biographer Joe Hyams, the images provide an extraordinarily intimate view of the cult legend whose brooding good looks captivated fans by illuminating the troubled depths of his character. Published on the 50th anniversary of his death, this is the definitive photographic portrait of James Dean in both his professional and his private worlds-the real man behind the lingering legend. AUTHOR BIO: Dennis Stock has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1951, and his photographs are in the collections of many major museums. Stock is the author of 16 books, including California Trip, on the surrealistic landscape of that state. He lives in Connecticut. Joe Hyams is the noted author of 28 books, among them James Dean: Little Boy Lost, the definitive Dean biography. Immediately after Dean's death, he was the first authorized by the actor's family to write about him.
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James Dean is the coolest.......2007-03-09
i will say that this book show you how he star from the small town to the big city and then california
this is a clasic book that is going to be for generation , specially if you like James Dean
BLACK AND WHITE AND COOL.......2007-02-05
My good friend, Carole, sent me a copy of an official publication from a JAMES DEAN fan club. Inside was a lengthy story she had written recounting the 1988 trip that she and six other "die-hard Dean fans" (including Jimmy's boyhood friend, Bob Pulley) made to California, during which I escorted the group to several of the prominent Dean-related sites in Los Angeles. Happily reliving those days through Carole's recollections, I was inspired to lose myself in my copy of Dennis Stock's JAMES DEAN REVISITED. His JAMES DEAN: FIFTY YEARS AGO is essentially a special, retitled hardcover reissue with the photographs beautifully enlarged, and a few splendid ones previously unpublished now included.
My copy - a gift from my employer in 1993 - is inscribed, "To a fellow alien who straddles two worlds...the art is in the living." My magazine-publishing boss bought me the book, but being a major fan, naturally, this essential book for Dean fans was already in my bookcase. I subsequently gave away my older copy and kept his gift.
As a wannabe actor fresh out of high school in 1977 (Santa Monica High, coincidentally also known as Dawson High in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE), I discovered Dean at a Fox Venice Theater showing of what I consider Dean's greatest film, EAST OF EDEN. This was before movies were available for purchase and home viewing. I was mesmerized then knocked out of my boots; everything struck a chord of harmony within me: the sense of youthful alienation; the brooding intensity; the moodiness; the frustration; the quest for meaning. I was hooked, and James Dean became my idol.
In September of 1980, I took my first extensive solo trip, flying into Indianapolis and then driving to Dean's hometown, Fairmount, for the festival honoring the 25th anniversary of his death. Through happenstance (?), I met Carole and her friend Russ (both would remain my very good friends). I'd heard that Martin Sheen was to attend the festival, and when Russ asked if I wanted to accompany them to the Indianapolis airport to pick up "Martin", I said, "Sure" - assuming that the "first name only" implied that this Martin was famous and a last name was unnecessary. It turned out to be Martin, hard-core fan flying in from England. (I'm still in touch with this non-Sheen "Martin", too.) Well, in the days that followed, my disappointment from the "Martin Mix-up" turned to elation when I discovered how well-connected my new friends were, and I found myself meeting Adeline Nall, Jimmy's high school drama teacher, and then getting a private tour of his boyhood farmhouse conducted by the aunt who raised him, Ortense Dean Winslow. I saw his motorcycle and leather motorcycle jacket, his bongo drum sitting quietly in the corner, and his childhood artwork hanging on his old bedroom walls. Very heady stuff for a young fan! (I've experienced so many strange "coincidences" in my 47 years that I'm not at all convinced this life is "real.")
Well, as the years wore on, I surprisingly lost interest in acting, and a series of spiritual episodes completely changed me and my world-view. I no longer idolize human beings, but I still recognize that James Dean was (and remains) the most imaginative, most innately gifted American actor. The direction hinted at in GIANT gives an indication of where he was pointed as an artist, and ultimately he would have emerged as a "giant" of a film director. He may have started life as a hayseed, ending it with a Turnupseed and with Life's promising highway left unexplored before him, but JAMES DEAN LIVES, both in his three films, and in these beautiful black and white photographs by the fine lensman, Dennis Stock.
Do you wish to see why the name James Dean turns up in the songs of Rock stars? (David Essex, Lou Reed, John Mellencamp, Ian Hunter, and The Eagles, to name but five.) Want to see why all the boys wanted to BE him, and all the girls wanted to BE WITH him? (As a female friend recently wrote regarding his performance in East Of Eden: "I think Dean also aroused a lot of maternal feelings with that performance. You're attracted to him, but you also want to mother him. What's a girl to do?") Well, it's all in these pages:
The Offbeat Humor: Encircled by calves and pigs, Jim sits with his bongo drum on a patch of ground on the family's farm and bangs out a "rhythm to moo and oink to."
The Bizarre Morbidity: Jimmy posing in a coffin at a Fairmount funeral home just 7 months before his corpse would be taken there.
More Bizarre Morbidity: Jim examining the chicken head held by a small, joyful girl loitering on a New York sidewalk, while the girl's older sister holds onto the leash of their disinterested dog.
The Eerily Mysterious: He sits dressed in coat and tie, reading a book in the farm's hayloft while light filtering in reveals him to be surrounded by spider web-sealed old trunks. (A dynamite piece of photography! Absolutely first-rate.)
The Classic Cool: James Dean marches through the city streets, cigarette dangling, and shoulders hunched in his overcoat against a Times Square rain.
The Ultimate Rebellion: An edgy Dean holding a gun point-blank on future president Ronald Reagan on the Hollywood set of the television play, THE DARK, DARK HOUSE.
These and so many more stellar shots - some posed and some candid - await the James Dean fan on thse pages. The decades have whittled down my once massive Dean collection to just a few portrait reproduction post cards sent to me by the late artist, Kenneth Kendall, who sculpted the actor's bust on display at The Griffith Park Observatory in L.A., and to this book of 1955 photographs by Dennis Stock. This should tell you plenty about the quality of these photos. Come and "see" the original Voice of teen angst, the red-jacketed rebel in glorious black and white.
James Dean : Fifty Years Ago.......2006-03-20
Mr. James Dean who is featured in these pictures speaks for himself and what was lost when he was taken to his final resting place in Fairmount and what might have been.
James Dean lives on.......2006-02-01
Was about time this book came out. These are some of the most beautiful JD photos. It's all I've got to say
The Finest Photo Collection on James Dean.......2005-12-07
I owned Dennis Stock's 1980s collection of photos of Dean from his Life magazine days. This books is more than a re-release; Stock has a lot more written about his brief (friendly) relationship with Dean and the affect of Dean's death. Stock included previously unreleased pictures showing more of the young star's spirit and attitude. That is what this coffee table book is about: pictures. Stock's book, combined with George Perry's biography, make for the best written and pictoral chronicle on James Dean.
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Great.......2002-11-17
This showed many beautiful pictures of James Dean. I was a bit dissapointed because some pictures were cut off by the binding. But really, the pictures are fantastic. Worth buying.
Great photographs but..........2001-02-01
This book contains a great selection of black & white photographs of James Dean; candid, studio & film stills. Unfortunately the size of the book does pose a problem with some photographs being split in half and 'eaten' by the spine. This does ruin the effect of some beautiful prints.
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More unreleased hollywood photographs by Frank Worth, Portraits include Marilyn Monroe,James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor and many more.
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Grieg and delius: A Chronicle of Their Friendship in Letters.: An article from: Notes
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Twenty-four illustrations of youngsters on the balance beam, swinging from rings, doing handstands and situps and more.
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better book title: boy gymnastic stickers.......2004-09-03
The stickers are cute, but out of the 24 stickers, only 7 are pictures of girls. I expected the stickers to be evenly divided between girls and boys, and am very suprised and disappointed. So will the little girls getting these books as party favors! I wish this was mentioned in the description.
Not what I expected - may be fine for someone else.......2001-06-16
I did not expect a book with nothing but stickers and no associated activites to challenge the child who was receiving the book. I guess there are those who collect stickers who might be interested in having this.
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In the first chapter of his book The Power of Gold, Peter Bernstein quotes the immortal words of King Ferdinand of Spain, who once declared: "Get gold, humanely if possible, but at all hazards--get gold." As ensuing chapters reveal, man's obsession with finding, keeping, selling, and evaluating gold has rarely been a humane adventure and has always been a hazardous one. Digging deeply into history's treasury of torrid tales and complicated deals, Bernstein examines gold's lure with an economist's passion for quantification, a historian's eye for detail, and a sociologist's feel for its consequence.
Useless as a metal for most practical purposes, gold originally held value as decoration and adornment for the wealthy ancients. Later, it was minted and used as coins by the Lydians in 635 B.C. That, Bernstein goes on to reveal, put gold on a path from the concrete to the abstract, from evidence of wealth to the standard behind wealth in other forms, and finally to the tenuous place it holds in today's virtual world of credit cards and computer chips. Along the way lie wild stories of lives destroyed, fortunes won and quickly lost, and values transformed: the massacre by the Spanish invader Pizarro, whose small band of men decimated the formidable army of Emperor Atahualpa, "the Inca," through more duplicity than military skill; the roller-coaster ride of the 1890s, when the rippling impact of the Baring Brothers bank crisis in Britain sent the isolated United States into an economic meltdown; and the surplus of the Gold Coast natives of Timbuktu, who willingly traded their gold for much-needed salt, ounce for ounce.
Bernstein is a great storyteller. His accounts of mythological, ancient, and recent history ooze with odd and entertaining details that bring each successive tale of obsession to life. If not for his skill, the sheer volume of events collected here--presented more anecdotally than systematically--would be overwhelming. In the end, though, it is Bernstein's fascination with the power of gold to entangle and entrap its possessors, and its ultimate ability to change the course of entire eras and civilizations, that makes his book as fascinating as it is informative. A dense but entertaining read. --S. Ketchum
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Over the centuries, gold had stirred the passions for power and glory, for beauty and security, and even for immortality. No other object has commanded so much veneration over such a long period of time. The most striking feature of this long history is that gold led most of the protagonists in the drama into the ditch. Gold had them, rather than the other way around.
Power and passion begin with the magical, religious, and artistic qualities of gold. As the story progresses from primitive uses to the invention of coinage and the transformation of gold into money and the gold standard, gold speaks more loudly of power as it acquires increasing importance as money. Ultimately, the book confronts the future of gold, in a world where gold has been relegated to the periphery of global finance.
Along the way, we meet Moses and Midas, Croesus and Crassus, Byzantine emperors and humble miners, unscrupulous moneyers and ransomed kings, Francisco Pizzaro and Benvenuto Cellini, Charlemange and Charles de Gaulle, Richard I and Richard Nixon, Asian monarchs and Arab potentates, Isaac Newton and Winston Churchill, David Ricardo and John Maynard Keynes, and the Forty-Niners and the speculators who pushed gold to $850 an ounce in 1980. It has been an icon for greed and an emblem of rectitude, as well as a vehicle for vanity and a badge of power that has shaped the destiny of humanity through the ages.
In the end, this story is a morality tale. The pursuit of eternity will not be satisfied by gold, or by anything else we choose to rpelace gold. Gold as an end in itself is meaningless. Hoarding does not create wealth. Gold makes sense only as a means to an end; to beautify, to adorn, to exchange for what we want and need.
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Incorporating myth, history and contemporary investigation, Bernstein tells the story of how human beings have become intoxicated, obsessed, enriched, impoverished, humbled and proud for the sake of gold. From the past to the future, Bernstein's portrayal of gold is intimately linked to the character of humankind.
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A Book as Shiny As its subject matter.......2007-07-28
Peter Bernstein has done a very good job in highlighting Gold's historical perspective. In doing so, he has both directly and indirectly, provided a road map for the future of gold in our economic affairs. This is the kind of book that is both informative and thought provoking; thoughts that stay with you for a while. It is exactly this thought-lingering quality that it is the unmistakable mark of a good book.
The entirety of human history distilled into 448 pages and viewed through gold-tinted glasses.......2007-05-26
I remember sitting in a high-school history class one day in 1995; the discussion was mercantilism. "But why would countries fight wars over gold? What could they do with it?" I asked. The teacher didn't understand the question. "Gold has value," he said. "Why?" We went back and forth for several minutes, and he became frustrated that I couldn't comprehend the basic economics of the mercantilist age. With Peter Bernstein's book, I finally have the answer to my twelve-year-old question: Gold has value only because people think it does; it has no intrinsic value, it has limited use beyond sacrament and ornamentation, and yes, the fighting wars over the essentially worthless metal is one of the great idiocies in human history. Just ask the Africans who thought it ludicrous of whites to trade precious, life-sustaining salt, for the useless shiny metal that they had in abundance. My nine-month-old daughter is absolutely transfixed with my gold watch - this is the story of gold. But I digress... Bernstein's book traces "the history of the obsession" from its earliest days in pre-history, right up through the abolition of the U.S. gold standard. Gold is correctly blamed for both inflationary and deflationary panics and depressions, thus laying to waste the claim by goldbugs that gold guarantees price stability. But the truly miraculous thing about this text is that Bernstein takes what would seem like a very dry subject and makes it extremely lively. The entire course of human history is viewed through gold-tinted glasses, and it is quite a ride. Ironically, it is goldbugs who will probably not enjoy this book, because it will force them to face the harsh reality that gold has no more intrinsic worth than fiat money, but all fans of history without deeply held monetary-policy beliefs should love this historical tour de-force.
Excellent account of the role gold played in the Great Depression.......2007-03-28
Unemployment was at 15 percent but to stop the outflow of gold America raised interest rates and thus set the world up for the Great Depression. The author uses history to clearly explain why central bankers were "blinded" by gold and made such disastrous decisions. Gold now is no longer money and hopefully our central bankers have got their sight back. But if the current system of world money fails, gold the "ultimate hedge against chaos" is standing by at $662 a ounce (gold may not be money but it is certainly worth money). Ben S. Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve has described the gold standard that took us into the Great Depression as "badly flawed" (does that mean a less flawed system is possible?). Unlike the author, Mr. Bernanke blames the system more than the operators of the system. The author's focus and description of the personalities making big decisions about gold makes this book a ten-times more fun read than the Fed Chairman's book, "Essays of the Great Depression" about gold (and other economic things). And I gave that book five stars so you know how I feel about this book.
Still Applicable for Today.......2006-12-19
I just finished the Power of Gold and found the book fascinating to read. As another reviewer stated this is the history of the world told from the perspective of money. And if you are talking about money you have to include gold. But allow me to add that money is not only about business but also about cultures, the growth of societies, changes of attitude, etc.
I came to understand that in the market place, whether it is a bizarre in the Middle East or the stock market money (including gold), is free to fluctuate, therefore, the whole concept of a stable currency probably requires additional thought.
The comments about WWI, Keynes, Norman, de Gaulle, Nixon, etc. were interesting because you saw these people from an historical perspective.
I found ths disucssions about the Great Depression very relavent to the current economic situation and the position that the Federal Reserve is taking. So even if it is history it is still applicable to today.
Accuracy checks?.......2006-11-17
I would have liked to rate this higher, but I came across 2 notable errors. On page 10, the author states that the Israelites had enough gold as slaves in Egypt to later melt for the golden calf. However, Exodus 12:35-36 states that the Egyptians gave them gold prior to them leaving Egypt.
Secondly, on pages 24-25, the author says that a 12 oz. troy pound (5,760 grains) is equal to a 16 oz. avoirdupois pound (7,000 grains) in weight. Not so. A troy pound is equal to 14.583 avoirdupois ounces, not 16.
Lastly, the author rather lightly treats the U.S. government's confiscation (no longer "legal tender") of citizen's gold coins in 1934 @ $20.67/oz. & then re-valuing gold at $35/oz., with private ownership restrictions finally lifted by 1975.
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