“Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.”

Sam Abell

1955 | Hunkering against the cold and rain, a haunted-looking James Dean strolls through Times Square, mere blocks from the famous Actors Studio where he and other legends-to-be studied "the Method." Originally published in the March 7, 1955, issue of LIFE.

1955 Hunkering against the cold and rain, a haunted-looking James Dean strolls through Times Square. Originally published in the March 7, 1955, issue of LIFE. Dennis Stock—Magnum