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...when he was an assistant to pioneering strobe photographer Gjon Mili, Dennis Stock won LIFE magazine's competition for young photographers. Stock was 23. Thanks to talent, persistence and an eye for irony, he climbed the ladder of the profession. Dennis hung around the cooperative agency Magnum until founder Robert Capa invited him to join, and he was still an active member when he died on Jan. 11 at 81. His most memorable photo story was on actor James Dean, with whom he traveled across the country--at one point, Dean decided to pose in an open coffin...
...Gjon Mili: photographer, MIT Museum Building, 265 Mass Ave., Cambridge, Weekdays: 9--5, Saturdays: 10--4, through October...
...DIED. Gjon Mili, 79, innovative LIFE photographer whose use of the high-speed electronic flash and multiple-exposure prints to capture movement too fast to be seen by the naked eye influenced two generations of photojournalists; of pneumonia; in Stamford, Conn. "Time could truly be made to stand still," Mili once said. "Texture could be retained despite sudden, violent movement." During his 45-year association with LIFE, the Albanian-born Mili did just that in thousands of stop-action pictures, among them one of Pablo Picasso using a penlight in his darkened studio to carve a drawing out of thin...
NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel -Faces in My Time, Anthony Powell -Gjon Mili: Photographs & Recollections -The Hour of Our Death, Philippe Aries -Paper Money, Adam Smith -The Terrible Secret, Walter Laqueur -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan
NONFICTION: Ambition, Joseph Epstein American Dreams, Studs Terkel Gjon Mili: Photographs & Recollections ∙ The Terrible Secret, Walter Laqueur ∙ Paper Money, Adam Smith ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Ways of Escape, Graham Greene