Gary Stochl (born 1947) is a street photographer who lives in Stickney, Illinois, just outside Chicago.[1] His work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and published in the book On City Streets: Chicago 1964-2004. Stochl made photographs for 40 years before showing them to anyone.[1]
Stochl has been taking photographs since he was 17 years old.[1] In the late 1960s he was inspired by the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson.[1] He bought a Leica camera and started taking pictures, his only formal education in photography being a course in high school.[1] Later he was inspired by the work of Robert Frank.