A Celebration of Roy Schatt and James Dean

Bonded in the 1950s by the Method.

It was and remains, all these years later, a brief but most potent friendship. From February 1954 until September 1955, Roy Schatt worked with actor James Dean after being named the official photographer of Lee Strasberg’s The Actors Studio. From a Photographer’s Gallery bio:

The Dean pictures are undoubtedly the crowning achievement of Schatt’s career. As he recalled many years later, Schatt was mesmerized from almost the first moment they met: “He was a squinty schlump of a person all bent over.

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