$500
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Auction: February 18, 2021 10:00:00 AM EDT
June, 1955. Gelatin silver print. Titled in pencil on verso; Photoplay Magazine copyright stamp on same, dated June 23, 1955. 8 x 9 7/8 in. (203 x 251 mm). Hinge-mounted, in mat and in frame, 19 x 15 in. (483 x 381 mm).
"Of the three film roles James Dean took before his tragic 1955 death in a car accident at age 24, perhaps the most ambitious was that of Jett Rink, the ranchhand-turned-oil millonaire in the epic family saga Giant...In death Dean's face became the ultimate symbol of youthful angst and alienation, but Avery's photos show another, more playful side of a star enjoying what he couldn't have known were his last days on a film set." (p. 45, Hollywood Frame by Frame, Karina Longworth, 2014)