Stanley Kubrick
Photographer. Look of the year (1945 - 1950)
by Rainer Crone
The exhibition, curated by Rainer Crone, made by the City of Milan - Culture and Arts Exhibitions Museums joints, in collaboration with the Library of Congress in Washington and the Museum of the City of New York - that hold a wealth of still unknown more than 20,000 negatives of Stanley Kubrick, a young but already great photographer - witness his ability to document the daily life of America are immediately World War, through the stories of famous characters like Rocky Graziano or Montgomery Clift, the shots in the Lightning and ironic that New York was preparing to become the new capital of the world, and even the daily lives of Dixieland musicians.
-An exhibition that tells the first-look 'of Kubrick that has' turned out to be one of the most stylistic traits' interest in her art film - said the Councillor for Culture the City of Milan Massimiliano Finazzer Flory -. Known to most 'to the unforgettable film that marked the history of cinema, Kubrick and' brilliantly distinguished for his work as a photojournalist. A career as a photographer and that 'the soul deployed by research of the characters portrayed in the same environments with a very personal vision of reality and its layered levels of meaning-
The initiative will reveal his way of doing photography, one of the passions that Kubrick, still a minor, inherited 'from his father (the other is chess), but it runs out' in the short span of five years.
The first photograph was published June 26, 1945 and portrays a newsagent broken for the Roosevelt's death, an image that will delight so much to offer the editors of Look to the amateur photographer the opportunity to join the staff of the magazine as a photojournalist. Look
The method, which was characterized by an episodic narrative, did not meet the approval of the most 'important photojournalists. The heads of the magazine wanted the subject was constantly followed, which were photographed in all this' he did. This style invasion of a great fascination for Kubrick who liked to create their own stories, starting from those photos. To obtain the characters of the poses that were more 'natural looking, Kubrick put in place a number of tricks to go unnoticed. One of these was to hide the camera cable in the jacket sleeve and the bolt action with a switch hidden in the palm of your hand. The interior was trying to make the most 'natural light can work properly on exposure time and the opening of the diaphragm. Much of the aesthetic sense that we find in his films was already expressed in his work of recent years.
Even using special techniques and points of view and keeping a certain distance can leak the psychological aspect of the subjects, thus allowing 'the viewer of the photos to build a personal interpretation of the character of people shooting.
well-born 'the first photographs of Stanley Kubrick, made in America immediately after the war, surprising since 'is not limited to the representation of an era, as one might expect from a reporter. Its instant fact - says the curator - is astounding, their surprising maturity, can not be regarded as visual archives of the joy of life, captured the spirit attentive and full of humor of a young man, but constitute a deliberate invitation to discuss the resources of the photographic medium, with its possibilities of representation and with their perception of reality: a constant of the artistic work of Kubrick that begins with photographs and continues through the film. "
A crucial step, therefore, if you think that the ambiguity of the image and of cinema itself are central to the thinking that animates the art films of the Second World War, so called modern, which Kubrick and 'was one of the indisputable masters.
The exhibition and 'organized in two parts. The first, in turn divided into seven sections, will have an introduction, icons, which presents the stories of iconic images that the eye lens Kubrick immortalized. How to tell that the trip to Portugal Lusitanian land of two Americans after the war, or crimes, testify that the arrest of two criminals by following the movements of police officers, their strategies, their cunning, until the seals capture. Betsy
Furstenberg, star of the section dedicated to her and to represent it as a symbol of the vibrant New York of those years, will be counterbalanced by the events of the small shoe shine, shoe shine, who were the street corners of New York.
Rounding out this first part of the two sections dedicated to the life that remained in the Columbia University, a place where America e'lite formed the ruling class of the future, and the Campus Mooseheart, Illinois, a university residence, built by benefactors, to educate children orphaned by war who would have gone to swell the ranks of middle class America.
The second part of the route will touch on other topics representative of the short career as a photographer, Kubrick, like images dedicated to the young Montgomery Clift caught inside his apartment, or those of the boxer Rocky Graziano, which tell the public and private moments of a modern hero, or the epic of the musicians Dixieland in New Orleans.
Once a catalog accompanies the exhibition Art exhibitions and museums.
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Image: Stanley Kubrick, Personalities of the circus, in March 1948
Opening April 15, 2010
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