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Stanley Kubrick


In Stanley Kubrick’s short career as a photojournalist you can find the
roots of the wunderkind director to come. Aditya Nair finds out.

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omewhere in the pantheon
dedicated to film legends, there
is a special throne reserved for
Stanley Kubrick. Arguably the
finest auteur in the history of the
medium, his films like A Clockwork Orange,
20 01: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket have
gone on to inspire almost every director who
has come after him.
A large part of his mystique comes from
the fact that this young director seemed to
materialise on the Hollywood circuit with
an almost fully formed visual and narrative
aesthetic. However, before the appearance

of Stanley Kubrick, the director, was Stanley
Kubrick, a young schoolboy, who became
the photographer for Look magazine.

1940s: A Photographic Odyssey
In many ways, Kubrick’s first step into the
visual arts was rather ordinary. When he was
thirteen, his father Jacob Kubrick, gave him
a second-hand Graflex camera. He began
by making images of daily life in New York
and developing them in a darkroom that
he built.
In April 1945, USA lost Franklin D
Roosevelt, widely hailed as the third most

(1928–1999)
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