Digitization of Library of Congress Uncovers Lost Kubrick Early Photos

Few people know that before he started making movies, Stanley Kubrick was a star photojournalist. Six weeks after graduating from high school, Kubrick went to work for Look magazine the way other kids went to college. The Kubrick-Kupcinet story, "Chicago City of Contrasts," ran five pages, and included 11 pictures. Plenty of landmarks are here: State Street at night, dinner at the Pump Room, a South Side kitchen full of kids, a cheerful stripper in the middle of her act, a jazz club, a boxing match, the floor of the stock exchange, sleek commuter trains standing in the station, a bum eating lunch alone in a rubble-filled lot on the West Side. Kubrick shot 40 rolls of film. What happened to the other photographs? We don't need to wonder. Almost all of Look's picture files -- approximately 5 million images in the form of negatives, proof sheets and prints -- were donated to the Library of Congress in 1971, just after the magazine folded. There they remained, uncataloged, inaccessible to the public. In the mid-1990s, Congress allocated funds for the Look cataloging project, the material was opened to the public about 2001, and a user-friendly finding aid went up on the Library of Congress Web site within the last six months... Link and Photos.