Kubrick photography

Stanley Kubrick is notorious for being one of cinema's most iconic imagists. With an eye as sharp as Kubrick's, it should come as no surprise that he earned his foundation in photography. Employed by Look Magazine at only the age of 17, Kubrick quickly became known for his storytelling thro

In the mid-2000s, historian Anna Pegler-Gordon said that visual media often seems more accessible to her students than the written record. They claimed images make the past seem more accessible, giving concrete shape to a world that sometimes seems intangible. Not to mention the immediacy of the image, which often conveys information more quickly than a primary document written in an unfamiliar, or even a foreign, language. But according to Pegler-Gordon, this immediacy also works well in…

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…

Stanley Kubrick’s legacy will forever be sealed in images. Mostly known for his motion picture work, it wasn’t until after his time as a still

See photos from and hear from the curators of the Museum of the City of New York's new exhibit “Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs.”

Before Stanley Kubrick directed arguably some of the best movies ever made like '2001: Space Odyssey' or 'The Shining,' he was a simple teenager in New York looking for a job. But even then, when the 17-year-old got his hands on a photo camera, he couldn't hide the talent within.

2001: A Space Odyssey 1680-x-1050 Wallpaper

At the entrance are still tickets. Only the prices there are no longer correct. The prices never hold up to the last.