Books

Stanley Kubrick: Still Moving Pictures - Fotografien 1945-1950
by Rainer Crone e Petrus Schaesberg (editor)
Schnell & Steiner, Munchen, 1999
230 p. b/w ill.

This book is the most complete account of Kubrick as a photographer to date. It presents several photographs, all printed in good quality. Critical essays are provided too. This German version was translated into French and published by FNAC in 2000. Author Rainer Crone is also the editor of Stanley Kubrick - Drama and Shadows and the curator of the Stanley Kubrick Fotografo exhibition held in Milan in 2010.

Details:
Number of photographs: 152
Number of pages from LOOK: 1

Reprinted articles:
Kids at a Ball Game - 16/10/1945 - 4 (out of 8) photos
Dentist's Office: Americans Are Dutiful but Nervous Dental Patients - 01/10/1946 - 5 (out of 18) photos
Bronx Street Scene - 26/11/1946 - 4 (out of 4) photos
Midsummer Nights in New York - 26/11/1946 - 3 photos
Life & Love On The New York Subway - 04/03/1947 - 12 photos
First Look at Mirror Bewilders Baby - 13/05/1947 - 5 photos
While Mama Shops - 18/03/1948 - 5 photos
(No title): poisoning for Fotocrime - 18/03/1948 - 3 photos
The Boss Talks It Over With Labor - 30/03/1948 - 2 photos
Art Gallery Dalì Exhibition - 30/03/1948 - 6 photos
Columbia: It's New Head Is Eisenhower - 11/05/1948 - 7 photos
How The Circus Gets Set - 25/05/1948 - 5 photos
Mooseheart: the Child City - 08/06/1948 - 8 foto e 1 pagina originale
New York World Art Center: George Grosz - 08/06/1948 - 1 photo
Bumper Baby Crop Starts School - 17/08/1948 - 4 photos
Prizefighter - 18/01/1949 - 15 (out of 20) photos
Chicago: City of Extremes - 12/04/1949 - 10 photos
Pint-Size Sculptor with Big Ideas: Koren DerHarootian - 10/05/1949 - 2 photos
University of Michigan - 10/05/1949 - 8 photos
Montgomery Clift... Glamour Boy in Baggy Pants - 19/7/1949 - 6 photos
Dixieland Jazz Is "Hot" Again - 06/06/1950 - 6 photos
The Debutante Who Went To Work - 12/09/1950 - 9 photos
What Every Teenager Should Know About Dating - 01/08/1950 - 8 photos
Faye Emerson: Young Lady In A Hurry - 15/08/1950 - 7 photos
What Teenagers Should Know About Love - 10/10/1950 - 4 photos
Jealousy: a Threat to Marriage - 24/10/1950 - 3 foto

 

Stanley Kubrick: Ladro di Sguardi - Fotografie di Fotografie - 1945-1949
by Elisabetta Sgarbi (editor); foreword by Enrico Ghezzi
Bompiani, Milano, 1999
142 p. b/w ill.

This Italian book collects some of the photographs that had been found in archives of American libraries. Printing quality is low because the pictures are actually photographs of pages of LOOK magazine, not reprints from the original negatives. These pages are provided too at the end of the volume.

Details:
Number of photographs: 76
Number of pages from LOOK: 18

Reprinted articles:
Kids at a Ball Game - 16/10/1945 - 8 (out of 8) photos and the original page
A Short-Short in a Movie Balcony - 16/04/1946 - 4 (out of 4) photos and the 2 original pages
How a Monkey Looks to People... & How People Look to a Monkey - 20/08/1946 - 3 (out of 4) photos and 1 out of 2 original pages
What Was Your Childhood Ambition? - 17/09/1946 - 12 (out of 12) photos and the 2 original pages
Do You Have Imaginary Illnesses? - 17/09/1946 - 4 (out of 4) photos and the original page
Dentist's Office: Americans Are Dutiful but Nervous Dental Patients - 01/10/1946 - 18 (out of 18) photos and the 2 original pages
How Would You Spend $1,000 in a Week? - 26/11/1946 - 6 (out of 12) photos and 1 out of 2 original pages
(No title): boy soaked by a running tap - 05/08/1947 - 1 (out of 1) photo and the original page
Prizefighter - 18/01/1949 - 20 (out of 20) photos and the 7 original pages

The book presents an episode of the Photocrime series, titled The Baffling Corpse, with four photographies mistakenly credited to Kubrick. Although Kubrick took pictures for Photocrime, the ones for this episode were taken by George Heyer.

 

Stanley Kubrick: a Life in Pictures
by Christiane Kubrick
Bulfinch, 2002
192 p. ill.

In this biography told in pictures, edited by Kubrick's third wife Christiane, the first photographs Kubrick sold to LOOK have been reprinted. Along with this image of Roosevelt's death, Christiane included several contact sheets from Kubrick's personal archive.

Details:
Number of photographs: 1
Number of contact sheets: 79

Reprinted articles:
(No title): newsvendor reacting to the death of F.D. Roosevelt - 26/06/1945 - 1 photo
(No title): spectators at a roller derby - 1949 - 7 contact sheets
Prizefighter - 18/01/1949 - 4 contact sheets
Montgomery Clift... Glamour Boy in Baggy Pants - 19/7/1949 - 32 contact sheets
Rocky Graziano: He's a Good Boy Now - 14/02/1950 - 12 contact sheets
Dixieland Jazz Is "Hot" Again - 06/06/1950 - 24 contact sheets

 

The Stanley Kubrick Archives
by Alison Castle (editor)
Taschen, 2005
554 p. ill.

The amazing book by Taschen features an essay by Gene D. Phillips about Stanley Kubrick's early works, including several reprints of LOOK photographs and some contact sheets. There is also a picture of the scrapbook Kubrick's mother kept during the years, portraying the famous shot of the newsvendor after President Roosevelt's death, writer George Grosz in New York and including two pages with the photo story A woman buys a hat.

Details:
Number of photographs: 35
Number of contact sheets: 17

Reprinted articles:
Dentist's Office: Americans Are Dutiful but Nervous Dental Patients - 01/10/1946 - 18 (out of 18) foto e le 2 pagine originali
Life & Love On The New York Subway - 04/03/1947 - 3 foto e 10 contact sheets
Montgomery Clift... Glamour Boy in Baggy Pants - 19/7/1949 - 1 photo
Sinatra & Kirsten Take Richmond - 31/01/1950 - 1 photo
Rocky Graziano: He's a Good Boy Now - 14/02/1950 - 1 foto e 4 contact sheets
Dixieland Jazz Is "Hot" Again - 06/06/1950 - 3 contact sheets
(No title): various scenes in the Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington DC - 1950 - 1 photo

The book presents nine more photographs besides the ones listed above but giving the fact that they don't have captions it wasn't possible to match these images with the list of all the photos.

 

Stanley Kubrick (Frankfurt Exhibition catalogue)
by Bernd Eichhorn, Eleonor Emsbach, Gerold Hens, Natalie Lettenewitsch, Jeremy Gaines, Julian Namé (editors)
Deutches Filmmuseum Frankfurt am Main, 2004
306 p. ill.

The catalogue for the exhibition organised in Frankfurt provides a critical essay about Kubrick as a photographer, along with some pictures. The exhibition showed a lot more photos than the few ones reprinted in this book.

Details:
Number of photographs: 12

Reprinted articles:
(No title): newsvendor reacting to the death of F.D. Roosevelt9 - 26/06/1945 - 1 photo
(No title): Keeley Institute photos - 01/04/1949 - 1 photo
University of Michigan - 10/05/1949 - 1 photo
Montgomery Clift... Glamour Boy in Baggy Pants - 19/7/1949 - 1 photo
(No title): Peter Arno portrait - 13/09/1949 - 1 photo
(No title): Frank Sinatra portrait - 17/10/1949 - 1 photo
Rocky Graziano: He's a Good Boy Now - 14/02/1950 - 1 photo
Traveling Saleswoman USA - 14/03/1950 - 1 foto

The book presents four more photographs besides the ones listed above but without detailed references.

 

Stanley Kubrick - Visual poet
by Paul Duncan
Taschen, 2003
196 p. ill.

Duncan's book recollects Kubrick's career with marvellous pictures, often unpublished. It has a brief section for the photographs taken for LOOK magazine.

Details:
Number of photographs: 8

Reprinted articles:
Midsummer Nights in New York - 26/11/1946 - 1 photo
Columbia: It's New Head is Eisenhower - 11/05/1948 - 1 photo
New York World Art Center: George Grosz - 08/06/1948 - 1 photo
Prizefighter - 18/01/1949 - 2 photos
Chicago: City of Extremes - 12/04/1949 - 1 photo
Montgomery Clift... Glamour Boy in Baggy Pants - 19/7/1949 - 1 photo
The Debutante Who Went to Work - 18/07/1950 - 1 photo

 

Art by Film Directors
by Karl French
Mitchell Beazley, London, 2004
212 p. ill.

This book presents artistic works realized by film directors, such as sculptures, paintings and photographs. For Stanley Kubrick there is an account of his LOOK years. All the reprinted photographs were given to the author by Antony Frewin, Kubrick's long time assistant.

Details:
Number of photographs: 6

Reprinted articles:
Sinatra & Kirsten Take Richmond - 31/01/1950 - 1 photo
Ken Murray Tries Out TV Talent - 09/05/1950 - 1 photo
The Ballad of Peggy Lee - 18/07/1950 - 1 photo

Three of the reprinted photographs are not matchable to the list of all the photos for lack of appropriate captions.

 

Stanley Kubrick: the man behind the myth
by Vincent Lo Brutto
Da Capo, 2001
570 p. b/w ill.

In the biography by Lo Brutto there are two pictures of the Prizefighter article about boxer Walter Cartier.

Details:
Number of photographs: 2

Reprinted articles:
Prizefighter - 18/01/1949 - 2 photos

 

I Film di Stanley Kubrick
by Roberto Lasagna and Saverio Zumbo
Falsopiano, Alessandria, 1997
248 p. ill b/n

This Italian book about the cinema of Stanley Kubrick has two LOOK photos.

Details:
Number of photographs: 2

Reprinted articles:
Dentist's Office: Americans Are Dutiful but Nervous Dental Patients - 01/10/1946 - 1 (out of 18) photos
Bronx Street Scene - 26/11/1946 - 1 (out of 4) photo

Magazines

OM - 13 November 2005
Eyes Wide Open
by Mark Kermode

After the publication of Drama & Shadows, the book edited by di Reiner Crone, this Observer magazine describes Kubrick's debut as a photographer stressing visual and stylistic interests, as well as themes depicted by the your artist. The article includes a self-portrait by Kubrick.

Details:
Number of photographs: 12

Reprinted articles:
(No title): Kids fighting in the streets - 1946 - 3 contact sheets
(No title): Johnny Grant - 26/11/1946 - 1 photo
(No title): A Bronx shoe-shine kid - 1947 - 1 photo
Life & Love On The New York Subway - 04/03/1947 - 2 photos
First Look at Mirror Bewilders Baby - 13/05/1947 - 1 (out of 5) photos
How The Circus Gets Set - 25/05/1948 - 1 photo
Rocky Graziano: He's a Good Boy Now - 14/02/1950 - 1 photo

 

OM - 33 Ottobre 2005
Kubrick's Camera
by George Perry

Il racconto degli anni giovanili di Kubrick alla rivista LOOK e un portfolio notevole con fotografie e provini tratte dallo Stanley Kubrick Archives della TASCHEN.

Details:
Number of photographs: 27

Reprinted articles:
Dentist's Office: Americans Are Dutiful but Nervous Dental Patients - 01/10/1946 - 9 (out of 18) photos and one original page
Life & Love On The New York Subway - 04/03/1947 - 6 contact sheets
Montgomery Clift... Glamour Boy in Baggy Pants - 19/7/1949 - 1 photo
Sinatra & Kirsten Take Richmond - 31/01/1950 - 1 photo
(No title): photos in the Walter Reed Hospital - 1950 - 1 foto

 

Vanity Fair - March 2005
Eyes Wide Open
by Mary Panzer

The article Eyes Wide Open deals with the years in which Kubrick worked as a photographer for LOOK magazine. Featuring rare photographs of young Kubrick including a self-portrait in the '50s.

Details:
Number of photographs: 8

Reprinted articles:
How a Monkey Looks to People... & How People Look to a Monkey - 20/08/1946 - 1 (out of 4) photos
(No title): New Jersey amusement park - 1947 - 2 photos
Prizefighter - 18/01/1949 - 4 contact sheets
Montgomery Clift... Glamour Boy in Baggy Pants - 19/7/1949 - 1 photo
Rocky Graziano: He's a Good Boy Now - 14/02/1950 - 2 photos
Sinatra & Kirsten Take Richmond - 31/01/1950 - 1 photo
Ken Murray Tries Out TV Talent - 09/05/1950 - 1 photo

 

American History - October 2001
Photographed by Stanley Kubrick
by Tom Huntington

A brief article about Stanley Kubrick's early years in New York is given, along with a great amount of photographs, never-before published.

Details:
Number of photographs: 18

Reprinted articles:
(No title): boy soaked by a running tap - 05/08/1947 - 1 photo
Holiday in Portugal - 03/08/1948 - 5 photos
Chicago: City of Extremes - 12/04/1949 - 3 photos
Taft Meets the People - & Proves a Human Campaigner - 31/01/1949 - 1 photo
(No title): recording the Kukla Fran & Ollie television show - 1949 - 1 photo
Sinatra & Kirsten Take Richmond - 31/01/1950 - 1 photo
Rocky Graziano: He's a Good Boy Now - 14/02/1950 - 1 photo
(No title): Leonard Bernstein practicing the piano - 14/03/1950 - 1 photo
The ballad of Peggy Lee - 18/07/1950 - 1 photo
News team - 1950 - 1 photo
(No title): Alben Barkley and the attendees of a furniture convention - 1950 - 1 photo
(No title): various scenes in the Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington DC - 1950 - 1 photo

 

Les Inrockuptibles - 1999
Privé de Kubrick
by Jade Lingdaar

An article of this special issue of the French music magazine entirely devoted to Kubrick is about LOOK photographs. There are four reprints from the French edition of Still Moving Pictures.

Details:
Number of photographs: 5

Reprinted articles:
Midsummer Nights in New York - 26/11/1946 - 1 photo
Prizefighter - 18/01/1949 - 1 (out of 20) photo
Chicago: City of Extremes - 12/04/1949 - 1 photo
Montgomery Clift... Glamour Boy in Baggy Pants - 19/7/1949 - 1 photo
The Debutante Who Went To Work - 12/09/1950 - 1 photo

 

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