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The Tale of the Shoe Shine Boy
Stanley Kubrick’s 1947 pictorial for LOOK Magazine. At the age of 13, Stanley Kubrick was given a Graflex camera by his father which triggered a fascination with still photography. He sold his first...
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Circus
Stanley Kubrick(1928-1999). Circus, 1948. Museum of the City of New York. X2011.4.11327 1948 was a good year for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The “Big Show” traveled from coast...
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The Sultry Showgirl
When Stanley Kubrick was a young man, he had the good luck to be assigned a job for LOOK Magazine that allowed him to create an intimate photographic portrait of Rosemary Williams. Stanley...
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“Painting for fun is catching on furiously among celebrated people”
In an October, 1948 article, LOOK magazine proclaimed, “Painting for fun is catching on furiously among celebrated people. About one hundred Big Names have answered a call for help from the Urban...
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Love in the Time of Weegee
As we continue to inventory and image the Museum’s holdings from the LOOK Magazine archives , we’ve discovered troves of images taken by famous photographers on assignment for the magazine. Weegee is...
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