[Editor's note: While your Flavorwire editors take a much-needed holiday break, we'll spend the next two weekends revisiting some of our most popular features of the year. This post was originally published on April 27, 2011.] Before A Clockwork Orange, Lolita and Dr. Strangelove, director Stanley Kubrick worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine, supplementing his wages by hustling chess at Washington Square Park. A poor student and a talented photographer, Kubrick brushed off his forced experience with formal education and went for the goal. He freelanced for Look while still in high school before being hired on permanently. In the summer of 1949, the magazine sent Kubrick to the Windy City to shoot for the story “Chicago City of Contrast.”
Contrast is what he delivered, from the racial context of the economic divide to the rigid feminine and masculine roles in the workplace to changes in transportation. Flip through a bittersweet gallery of young Stanley’s dramatic Chicago.
Courtesy Stanley Kubrick.
[via How to Be a Retronaut via Metkere]
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These Black & Whites are fantastic…moody, I almost felt I was intruding.
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Photography, just like sports… is all about being at the right place at the right time.
Something cops are never able to do.
the lasr one the self portrait is the best
I wish flavorwire starts using a proper lightbox to view images. I promise to click an add everytime I’ll come here!
This are great!… The subjects are great, but media really contributes to creating the mood and feel… absolutely love the self-portrait!
I found the original source, with captions, on the Library of Congress site: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/related/?fi=name&q=Kubrick%2C%20Stanley
#4 is wrestler Gorgeous George and #14 is for the opening of “John Loves Mary” a Ronnie Raygun B-picture.
So glad I am back to shooting in black and white. Thanks Stanley.
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The wrestling photo was taken when wrestling was real ha ha is for the people who have to have jokes explained to them
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@StaFlouride Thanks for finding/posting the link!
#15 – The first “Myspace” photo.
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[...] ‘Before A Clockwork Orange, Lolita and Dr. Strangelove, director Stanley Kubrick worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine, supplementing his wages by hustling chess at Washington Square Park. A poor student and a talented photographer, Kubrick brushed off his forced experience with formal education and went for the goal. He freelanced for Look while still in high school before being hired on permanently. In the summer of 1949, the magazine sent Kubrick to the Windy City to shoot for the story “Chicago City of Contrast.”’ from flavorwire.com [...]
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WTF is wrong with Fry’s head… He looks hydrocephalic in that image.
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