Recently I visited the new retrospective at Milk Gallery for Magnum Photographer Dennis Stock... I had the very great fortune of having Dennis as teacher and friend before his death in 2010. I studied in photography workshops with him during the summers of 2007, 2008 and 2009, and had the honor of being his assistant in the last workshop I attended. Dennis was a remarkable, brilliant, and wonderfully cantankerous man, with a wicked sense of humor, and a heart the size of the world. His passion for photography was incredibly infectious and pure, and informed during the golden age of photography to which he was also a major contributor like his extraordinary teachers- Henri Cartier Bresson, Gjon Mili, and W. Egene Smith. Consistently through his lens, he showed his great love for humanity; always finding the beauty and dignity in his subjects. The installation was fabulous. Hats off to MILK and Magnum.