Photography: Stanley Kubrick`s Early Photographs @ City Museum New York

 

(Drivebycuriosity) - Stanley Kubrick belongs to the most influential movie directors of all time. Being an admirer of him and an ambitious amateur photographer I was glad to see an exhibition of Kubrick`s early photographs. The Museum of the City of New York shows the pictures he took for the magazine "Look" in 1945 in the age of 17 (mcny).

 

Kubrick´s movies certainly benefited from his experience as a photographer. At the age of 13, his father bought him a Graflex camera, triggering a fascination with still photography (wikipedia). He befriended a neighbor,  who shared his passion for photography. The neighbor had his own darkroom, where the young Kubrick and he would spend many hours perusing photographs and watching the chemicals "magically make images on photographic paper”.

Already as a boy he sold photographs to newspapers & magazines. "His tenure at Look sharpened the detailed, observational skill essential to moviemaking", write the museum`s curators.

 

Kubrick wasn`t a prude as you can see in films like "Eyes Wide Shut". The images above illustrated an article about Peter Arno, who was famous for his "sexually provocative" cartoons for the New Yorker magazine.

 

Kubrick also liked glamour.

 

Above an portrait of a shoeshine boy

 

Some of the pics were taken with hidden cameras.

 Above 2 pages from Look magazine.

Enjoy!