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Stanley Kubrick: Drama & Shadows Hardcover – December 1, 2005

by Rainer F. Crone (Author), Petrus Schaesberg (Author), Alexandra Stosch (Author)

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Stanley Kubrick Drama and Shadows is the first publication of early photographs by renowned filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), taken between 1945 and 1950 ― many of them never before seen by the general public. Kubrick made these photographs while he was a staff photographer for the New York–based Look magazine, following his graduation from high school and before he made his first films

Aimed at a broad audience, Stanley KubrickDrama and Shadows reveals the director’s early experimentations with image composition and his attraction to dramatic, often psychologically intense subjects and narratives that would both become elements of his recognizable style as a director

Divided into four thematic chapters ("Metropolitan Life," "Entertainment," "Celebrities," and "Human Behavior"), this book features a carefully selected group of approximately 350 photographs organized into approximately thirty photographic stories. An insightful introductory essay provides context and examines Kubrick’s photographs in relation to the history of photography

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240 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Phaidon Press
Publication date

December 1, 2005
Grade level

8 and up
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13 years and up
Dimensions

10 x 1.25 x 12 inches
ISBN-10

0714844381
ISBN-13

978-0714844381
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Rainer Crone holds the Chair for Twentieth Century Art and Media at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Formerly an Associate Professor of Art History at Columbia University in New York, he is the author of the first monograph on Andy Warhol (1970), and has since widely published on twentieth-century art and artists. His most recent books include Louise Bourgeois, the Secret of the Cells (1998), Auguste Rodin: Eros and Creativity (1991), and Kasimir Malevitch: The Climax of Disclosure (1991).

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Phaidon Press; First Edition (December 1, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0714844381
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714844381
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10 x 1.25 x 12 inches

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Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was an American director, writer, producer, and photographer of motion pictures, including the classics Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The SHining, Full Metal Jacket, and others.

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H. Williams

See how Stanley Kubrick got started.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 7, 2015

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Maybe Stanley Kubrick wasn't the best photographer (I have quibbles: some of his photos may be trite and ordinary) but it's a great way to see how he got started if you love his movies.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 20, 2019

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Great book. Perfect condition!

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Lisa Shea

A Great Look into a Fantastic Photographer

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 18, 2015

Stanley Kubrick has a well-deserved phenomenal reputation with moving film. But few know that he got his start with film photography - in the careful study of shadows and lights, with scene and emotion. It is this foundation that helped make him the stellar director he became.

The book is not a light read. It's a tome with references to repoussoir and Gestus, to his sociological studies and mise-en-scenes. It's the type of book you can read again and again and each time draw something new from it.

And the photos!

You get subway trains and cramped apartments. Shoe shine boys and circus families. Foreign lands and celebrities. There's a great range of photos in here. Some seem almost ordinary while others are stunning in their emotion. The photos are presented quite well, large size, so you can examine their different aspects and truly appreciate them.

Well recommended for anyone who wants to be inspired by photography.

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TexasLangGenius

A look at a less known time of Kubrick's life.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 4, 2011

I first learned of this book on Wikipedia, when I saw the self-portrait of Kubrick taken with his Leica camera (it's right before the opening essay). Being a photographer myself as well as a Kubrick fan, I never knew that Kubrick had worked for look. Everyone knows about his films and can talk about those, but hardly anyone I talked to knew that he had been a photographer before being a film director (like me). I open it up often for inspiration, especially when I intend to shoot black and white.

Many of the photos have a story to tell and quite a few of them are entrancing (like the cityscape shot on page 233). Even if this is a small sample of his work (12,000 archived negatives, according to the book), the photos were chosen very well. The opening essay is insightful and the photo showcase is a wonderful treat. The written commentary at the beginning of each photo set talks about themes in certain pictures that Kubrick explored (like adopting a child's eye view at the Palisades Amusement Park), the nature of the photo set (like a trip to Portugal) or technique (how he did casual photography in the subway). In any case, one can see the incredible amount of care he took in creating the picture. Kubrick himself said in an interview that his being a photographer served him well as a filmmaker.

Only one or two of the photos might be a little commercial, as suggested by another reviewer, but the grand majority show a missing link in Kubrick's career: and that is his humble beginnings.

I highly recommend this book for Kubrick fans and those who love photography.

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Carl Maxwell

Great photographs

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 28, 2006

The photographs in this book are worth the price of it. If you're a Kubrick fan, you can't do without it. The photographs teach more about film than a dozen histories.

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blackshredder

Sheds some light on Kubrick but does not stand alone as photography

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 31, 2006

The editors of this book were wise in prominently placing the photo that you see here on the cover. It is the most distinct and mysterious image in a book of otherwise indistinct work. Most of the photos are commercial and are interesting in so far as they reveal little hints of Kubrick's budding genius for mis-en-scene. But as photos the work doesn't stand alone very well, nor was it intended to.

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