Stanley Kubrick Photographs. Through a Different Lens

Stanley Kubrick, young prodigy behind the lens

Delve into Stanley Kubrick's fascinating early life with Stanley Kubrick Photographs: Through a Different Lens, a book published by Taschen that explores the early artistic life of the celebrated director, then a young photographer with a keen eye. Long before revolutionizing cinema with major works like 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick forged his visual language through the lens of his camera.

Street scenes, portraits and moments of life captured with precision

Hired by Look magazine at the age of 17, he spent five years documenting postwar New York life, capturing with rare sensitivity the small scenes of everyday life, anonymous faces, social contrasts, and fragments of a changing city. The book brings together approximately 300 photographs, many of which have never been seen before, offering a valuable insight into his intuitive approach and his already extraordinary eye for storytelling.

Rare documents, archival pages and an introduction by Lucy Sante

It features series as diverse as they are touching: a day in a laundromat, the life of a young debutante, behind-the-scenes footage at a circus, and snapshots taken on the Columbia campus. These images, accompanied by original pages from the magazine and an illuminating introduction by critic Lucy Sante, reveal the visual power, rigorous composition, and empathetic gaze that already foreshadowed the future master of cinema.

The visual beginnings of Kubrick's style, between rigor and empathy

Through a Different Lens is much more than a book of photographs: it is a dive into the origins of a genius, a vibrant testimony to the profound link between photography and cinema, and a must-have for any lover of images, history, and visual creation.

• author: Lucy Sante
• languages: English, French and German
• 328 pages

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