3 June 2013
The newsvendor, the young shoe shine boy, but Rocky Graziano too, naked under the shower, wrapped in muscles and bundles of nerves, and in shadows. Kubrick before becoming Kubrick was already Kubrick: the seventeen-year-old was hired by Look magazine to capture the feverish atmosphere of New York. He did so from 1945 to 1950. The period is documented by 160 photographs, selected from the over 200 thousand preserved in the immense archives of the Museum of the City of New York. “Real is good, interesting is better,” said Stanley. If we wanted to play a game of “ifs,” we’d like to imagine him today, at grips with Vine’s six seconds. His pictures do not lack a sense of time, waiting, history, movement. Rocky is looking beyond. The noise of the running water is almost audible. Not long afterward, Kubrick would make his first short. The rest is history.
Stanley Kubrick photographer
Curated by Michel Draguet
Doge’s Palace, Genoa
May 1 – September 1, 2013
Stanley Kubrick, The New York Subway, 1947. Courtesy: Museum of the City of New York.
Stanley Kubrick, Portrait, 1946. Courtesy: Museum of the City of New York.
Stanley Kubrick, Columbia University, 1948. Courtesy: Museum of the City of New York.
Stanley Kubrick, World sport boxing’s two mythic heroes Rocky Graziano, 1950. Courtesy: Museum of the City of New York.
Stanley Kubrick, A tale of a shoe-shine boy, 1947. Courtesy: Museum of the City of New York.
Stanley Kubrick, Myths of a Paddy Wagon, 1949. Courtesy: Museum of the City of New York.
Stanley Kubrick, Montgomery Clift, 1949. Courtesy: Museum of the City of New York.
Stanley Kubrick, Montgomery Clift, 1949. Courtesy: Museum of the City of New York.
Stanley Kubrick, Dailies of a rising star: Betsy von Fürstenberg, 1950. Courtesy: Museum of the City of New York.
Stanley Kubrick, A tale of a shoe-shine boy, 1947. Courtesy: Museum of the City of New York.
Stanley Kubrick, Personalities of the circus, 1948. Courtesy: Museum of the City of New York.