Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine

From 1945 to 1950, during the formative years of his career, Stanley Kubrick worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine. Offering a comprehensive examination of the work he produced during this period before going on to become one of Americas most celebrated filmmakers Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine sheds new light on the aesthetic and ideological factors that shaped his artistic voice. Tracing the links between his photojournalism and films, Philippe Mather shows how working at Look fostered Kubricks emerging genius for combining images and words to tell a story. Mather then demonstrates how exploring these links enhances our understanding of Kubricks approach to narrative structure as well as his distinctive combinations of such genres as fiction and documentary and fantasy and realism.