Dennis Stock: American Cool download eBook. Whether photographing Hollywood celebrities or immigrants newly arrived in New York, photographer Dennis Stock (1928-2010) had an extraordinary ability to capture the essence of the American experience. A Magnum photographer for over fifty years, Stock once said that The The first anthology dedicated to one of the greatest American photographers of the 20th century, Dennis Stock, during his most celebrated period of the I think there is a thread to be observed throughout my work. It's that I am relatively affirmative. I am not inclined to make fools of people and I love beauty.