Dec 31, 2024
In January of 1955, "Life" magazine commissioned photographer Dennis Stock to do a visual biography on the life of actor James Dean. As part of the story, it included a trip to his childhood home of Fairmount, Indiana.
Dean decided to pose inside of a coffin for a series of shots, at the local department store in Fairmount.
Sadly, this would be the last time Dean ever returned alive to his boyhood home. He died on September 30, 1955, in a car accident, near Paso Robles, CA. He is buried in Park Cemetery in Fairmount.