Stanley Kubrick

1928년 뉴욕에서 태어난 Stanley Kubrick은 고등학교 때부터 사진을 찍기 시작했다. 16세에 그는 루즈벨트 대통령의 죽음을 Look Magazine에 보냈으며 그 잡지사에서 일을 할 수 있게 되었다. 1950도에 Stanley Kubrick은 그의 첫 번째 16미리 필름을 만들었으며 5년동안 뉴욕에서랑 그의 사진집을 완성시켰다. Stanley Kubrick의 작품세계는 다양했으나 사람들은 중심에만 초점을 맞추려했다. 뉴욕의 지하철이나 권투선수인 Rocky Graziano의 링에서의 모습 같은 아주 다양한 모습들을 다루었다. 그의 대표적인 스타일은 아주 Cinematic하다는 것이다.
만약 Stanley Kubrick이 1940년대에 작품 활동을 했었더라면 미국 사진 계에 큰 변화를 주었을지도 모른다.

이 책에서는 Stanley Kubrick의 사진을 선택한 Rainer Crone의 수필을 소개하고 있으며 Crone는 Stanley Kubrick과 같이 작업도 했었었다. 이 책에서는 Stanley Kubrick가 얼마나 사진세계에 영향을 미쳤으며 성공한 감독이었나 하는것과 그의 작품세계를 표현하고 있다.


Born in New York City in 1928, Stanley Kubrick begantaking photographs when in high school. At sixteen, he sent a photograph he took of a newsstand after President Roosevelt’s death to Look Magazine. The publication of the photograph marked the beginning of Kubrick’s work for the magazine, which lasted until 1950, when Kubrick made his first 16mm documentary film. During those five years Kubrick completed dozens of photographic reportage assignments in New York City as well as abroad. The resulting thousands of negatives have remained in the archives of Look Magazine ever since.
Kubrick’s photographs vary in subject, but people are the central focus of attention, as is his commitment to narration. Whether capturing the meditative state of passengers in a series of portraits made in the New York subway, following famous boxer Rocky Graziano on the ring and in intimate moments, portraying the coming of age of socialite Betsy Von Furstenberg, or narrating the tale of a shoe-shine boy in the streets of New York City, Kubrick draws psychological portraits that combine drama, irony, and often mystery, anticipating his trademark cinematic style.

If Kubrick’s photographs are fascinating accounts of life in the late 1940s, they are also a major contribution to American photography of that era. At nineteen, Kubrick already had an immense talent in constructing complex compositions in which camera positioning and lighting played a crucial role.

The book is introduced by an essay by Rainer Crone, who also edited the selection of photographs for this book. Crone is an expert on Kubrick’s photographic work, and has already published a catalogue on this subject (see Related Titles below). An art historian, he gives context and examines Kubrick’s photographs in relation to not only his later films but also the history of twentieth-century art and photography. Crone also wrote short introductions to most stories in the book.

An invaluable contribution to the history of photography, this book explores how one of the most influential and successful film directors of our time used photography to master visual techniques and cultivate his signature style.
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