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 staff photographer on record.) Kubrick’s striking black and white images of 1940s New York City — which were often shot on the sly, his camera concealed in a paper bag with a hole in it — hint at the dark beauty and psychological drama of his later creative output. Now, VandM is making 25 select prints from the nearly 10,000 photos that he took as a young man available for purchase for the first time. Click through to preview some of his early work, and head here to buy a limited-edition print, with the majority of the proceeds going to the Museum of the City of New York.
Photo credit: Stanley Kubrick. Courtesy of Museum of the City of New York
Comments (7)
wow. stunning work.
No wonder his screen translations are so incredible–he learned from the ground up.
Indeed. Woderful pictures. But… first of all, I think none of them were taken with the “paper bag” camera. Second, it was not a paper bag this kind of camera. Should be a shoe box or something similar. The hole was a pin hole and the exposures were necessarily very long exposures. No doubt Kubrick uses that device but certainly not for this staged pictures taken during the movies shooting.
number 5 looks like dr strangelove
Stanley Kubrick was NOT a poor boy from The Bronx. His father was a doctor and he lived on the Grand Concourse. Today people seem to think they can write anything without resorting to things like facts. Just because he came from The Bronx (the correct spelling BTW) doesn’t automatically mean he was poor. Poor boys from The Bronx didn’t have fancy 35mm cameras. Do a little research before writing something.
Why are you showing these great photos cropped? Are you paying by the pixel? The full images are much better. I’ve never been here to view photographs before, and probably won’t return because you don’t seem to get it.
http://designintell.vandm.com/2011/11/stanley-kubricks-new-york/
Definitely a genius. The best! But…”Poor kid?” What? With a Doctor dad and a Pharmacist uncle, and a Leica around his neck? Uh uh…
Somebody didn’t check facts.
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