If the steering wheel of his Porsche racing car hadn't pushed through his chest on September 30, 1955, James Dean would have been 79 years old today!

Here is a minuscule handful of my favorite photos of James Dean. I used to have these stuck to my wall back in the late 80s when I lived in the East Village in New York. Kind of amazing that you can just find all this stuff online now.  I used to spend a fortune on books about James Dean.


From the movie Giant.



On the set of Rebel Without A Cause.




I always loved how his hat was poking the horse in the eye, but that the horse looked really happy anyway. I used to stare at this photo for hours. It's from the set of the movie Giant.



This is one of the last photos of James Dean. He died later that afternoon.