Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine: Authorship and Genre in Photojournalism and Film, by Philippe Mather, is the first full-length analysis of Kubrick’s photojournalistic work. Mather provides valuable background on the practices and conventions of Look and other post-war magazines, contextualising Kubrick’s photo-stories before analysing them aesthetically.
Kubrick worked for Look after he finished high school, from 1945 to 1950, and hundreds of his photographs were published. (I have compiled a comprehensive list.) Mather has examined back-issues of Look and other contemporaneous books and articles by Look’s writers, and this research allows him to make detailed studies of Kubrick’s photographs in their original contexts. He has also included a useful appendix cataloguing the prints archived by the Library of Congress and the Museum of the City of New York.
Kubrick worked for Look after he finished high school, from 1945 to 1950, and hundreds of his photographs were published. (I have compiled a comprehensive list.) Mather has examined back-issues of Look and other contemporaneous books and articles by Look’s writers, and this research allows him to make detailed studies of Kubrick’s photographs in their original contexts. He has also included a useful appendix cataloguing the prints archived by the Library of Congress and the Museum of the City of New York.
