Walking with Roy Schatt and actor/friend Martin Landau, James Dean suddenly jumped over a rail outside the Dakota and began photographing his two friends from an angle he thought no one else would use. And Roy photographed Dean photographing them.
This was James Dean’s Rolleiflex camera that was given to him by his close friend and photography instructor Roy Schatt while he was learning photography. The famed photographer, responsible for the iconic photographs he took of Dean in 1954, including the “Torn Sweater” series, was Dean’s friend and teacher in the last year and a half of Dean’s life. At that time Schatt loaned this camera equipment to Dean and he can be seen with the camera here in one of Schatt’s famous shots of Dean in New York City.
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