Before directing iconic films such as “The Shining” and “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was a staff photographer for Look magazine, shooting feature stories all over his hometown.
Kubrick began by working for his school magazine, and, after one of his photographs was accepted by Look magazine, he became a Look apprentice. His work had a narrative, "story-telling" quality across his photographic essays - like these images at a steel-works.
He was just 17 years old when he started in 1945, and he spent the next five years working on stories that focused on New Yorkers and their daily lives.
In 1949, Look magazine published the series "Chicago - City of Extremes" from which these images are taken. With low light and high contrast these images show the people of Chicago at work and play.
In these photographs, the 21-year-old Kubrick documented commuters, steel workers, models, butchers, wrestlers, school children, the disenfranchised and, below, traders.
“There's quite a lot of drama there, there's a kind of film-noir quality to a lot of the pictures,” said Reuel Golden, who co-edited the recently published book “Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs.” “There's also a sense where Kubrick is very much in the scene but you don't see him. That’s something that is very paramount for a film director. That you sense his presence but you don't actually see him.”
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| A young Stanley Kubrick |
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