Leica LTM stanley kubrick photos with a leica iii

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"Before A Clockwork Orange, Lolita and Dr. Strangelove, director Stanley Kubrick worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine, supplementing his wages by hustling chess at Washington Square Park. A poor student and a talented photographer, Kubrick brushed off his forced experience with formal education and went for the goal. He freelanced for Look while still in high school before being hired on permanently. In the summer of 1949, the magazine sent Kubrick to the Windy City to shoot for the story “Chicago City of Contrast.”

Contrast is what he delivered, from the racial context of the economic divide to the rigid feminine and masculine roles in the workplace to changes in transportation. Flip through a bittersweet gallery of young Stanley’s dramatic Chicago."
 
Kubrick took a famous self-portrait with his Leica:

stanley-kubrick-self-portrait1.jpg
 
That is actually not a self portrait. It was taken of a kid who won a photo contest IIRC.

I presume you are joshing (or perhaps have confused the photo with a modern remaking of it by some kid who won a photo contest????)....This is categorically a photo of Andreas Feininger a famous Life photographer and is the photo itself is famous for this reason.

Unless perhaps that the kid you mentioned got his photo on the front of a book :^) ........................

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Photographers-What-They-Saw/dp/0821225189
 
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That is actually not a self portrait. It was taken of a kid who won a photo contest IIRC.

Hi Patrick, I am wrong and you are right (I was contradicting you at first). It is as you say.

The man in the picture is Dennis Stock (magnum photographer)
 
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Hi and apologies. On checking further rather than relying on my faulty memory the photo is indeed Dennis Stock - taken by Andreas Feininger. I was half right.
 
It was Dennis Stock before he became well-known in his own right, so he was the kid who won a photo contest, I suppose.

I'm not sure whether it's a IIIc or a IIIf, but the lens is a Summitar. I have a bigger reproduction of the photo in a book.
 
Fantastic to see this. I used that picture of Kubrick as my Avatar here for a while. It is a very clever shot. Kubrick had such a marvellous intensity then - he reminds me of a young Al Pacino. For a teenager his output was stunning. I have a book of these old Look photographs, 'Drama and Shadows' published by Phaidon.
 
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