Jazz, blues and landscape photographs on display

Art Business News, Oct, 2004

CLINTON, CT -- After a 4-year restoration, the M. Sarba Fine Art Cafe has on exhibit "Fame & Flowers," featuring the photographs of Dennis Stock, through Oct. 23. The show displays two themes, the first being of Iris jazz days in the 1960s and the second, highlighting the flowers from his travels in Europe.

Stock was first recognized, early in his career, for his photographs of James Dean in Times Square, Audrey Hepburn on a movie set, and several jazz and blues performers such as Billie Holiday, Sydney Bechet, Gene Krupa and Duke Ellington. Because of these photographs, Stock won first prize in the International Photography Competition in Poland.

Later in the 1970s and 1980s, Stock traveled to Italy fairly often, where he pursued the making of colored pictures of landscapes. He authored 16 books showing these photographs from his travels.

Stock has exhibited his work in France, Italy, Japan and the United States. He won first prize in Life magazine's "Young Photographers Contest" and became a member of the Magnum Photos, a cooperative agency founded by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson.