Stanley kubrick photography

Stanley Kubrick is notorious for being one of cinema's most iconic imagists. With an eye as sharp as Kubrick's, it should come as no surprise that he earned his foundation in photography. Employed by Look Magazine at only the age of 17, Kubrick quickly became known for his storytelling thro

In the mid-2000s, historian Anna Pegler-Gordon said that visual media often seems more accessible to her students than the written record. They claimed images make the past seem more accessible, giving concrete shape to a world that sometimes seems intangible. Not to mention the immediacy of the image, which often conveys information more quickly than a primary document written in an unfamiliar, or even a foreign, language. But according to Pegler-Gordon, this immediacy also works well in…

As we previously mentioned, before he became famous for directing films like A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, and Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick was a poor kid from the Bronx who worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine. (He was their youngest…

Stanley Kubrick Sleeping Woman (Subway Series), 1946

Before directing iconic films such as “The Shining” and “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Stanley Kubrick was a staff photographer for Look magazine, shooting feature stories all over his hometown of New York City.

A body of work in which postwar New York came to life through intimate portraits and animated street scenes

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