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Stanley Kubrick Drama & Shadows: Photographs 1945-1950 is
the first book to present the previously unpublished photographs
of the renowned filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), taken
between 1945 and 1950 and printed from recently discovered original
negatives. Shortly after graduating from high school and
before making his first films, Kubrick shot roughly 12,000 images
as a staff photographer for the New York-based Look magazine.
Aimed at a broad audience, Stanley Kubrick Drama & 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 400
photographs organized into thirty-one photographic stories. An
insightful introductory essay by author Rainer Crone provides
context and examines Kubrick's photographs in relation to the
history of photography.
Rainer Crone holds the Chair for 20th-Century Art and Media at
the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. Formerly teaching
at Yale University, the University of California, Berkeley, and
Columbia University, 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 (Prestel, 1998), Auguste Rodin:
Eros and Creativity (Prestel, 1991), and Kasimir Malevitch: The
Climax of Disclosure (Reaktion Books, 1991). He lives in Munich
and New York.
Petrus Schaesberg is editor of the catalogue raisonné of works on
paper by Edward Ruscha and Chief Curator of the International
Center of Curatorial Studies (ICCARUS) at Ludwig-Maximilian
University in Munich, where he received his D.Phil. in 2004 on
"The Concept of Collage: Paradigm Shifts in its History from
Pablo Picasso to Edward Ruscha." Schaesberg has published several
essays on contemporary art and is coauthor (with Rainer
Crone) of Louise Bourgeois, the Secret of the Cells.
Alexandra von Stosch is a curator and writer based in Berlin. In
2004, she obtained her D.Phil. at the Ludwig-Maximilian
University in Munich on the topic of "Stanley Kubrick's Pictorial
Universe: Photographs 1945-1950." She is a founding member of
the International Center of Curatorial Studies (ICCARUS), operating
in Munich and New York, and was artistic director from 1993
to 1997 for Art Public Contemporain in Paris.
Jeff Wall was born in 1946 in Vancouver, Canada, where he lives
and works. In the 1970s, he began making large backlit transparencies
that employ elements of cinematography. Since 1991,
Wall has used digital technology and since 1996 has also worked in
traditional black and white. His pictures have been widely exhibited
over the past two decades and he has been the subject of
numerous monographs and other studies.
