Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine

This is a beautifully written and exhaustively researched look at Kubrick's career as a photojournalist at "Look" magazine. It explores how working as a photojournalist at Look shaped his subsequent career as a filmmaker. It features never-before-published photographs from the Look archives and comp [...]
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This is a beautifully written and exhaustively researched look at Kubrick's career as a photojournalist at "Look" magazine. It explores how working as a photojournalist at Look shaped his subsequent career as a filmmaker. It features never-before-published photographs from the Look archives and complete scans of Kubrick's photo essays. From 1945 to 1950, during the formative years of his career, celebrated American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick worked as a photojournalist for "Look" magazine. Offering a comprehensive examination of the work he produced during this period, "Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine" sheds new light on the aesthetic and ideological factors that shaped his artistic voice. Tracing the links between his photojournalism and films, Mather shows how working at Look fostered Kubrick's emerging talent for combining images and words to tell a story. Mather then demonstrates how exploring these links enhances our understanding of Kubrick's approach to narrative structure - as well as his distinctive combinations of such genres as fiction and documentary, and fantasy and realism.This passionately written, minutely researched volume brings never-before-published photographs from "Look" archives, as well as complete scans of Kubrick's photo-essays from hard-to-obtain back issues of the magazine.