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Stanley Kubrick was a Photojournalist

by $8 blue check mistermix|  April 7, 20119:53 am| 41 Comments

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And he was very good at it (via). Is this non-Sully enough for you, G&T? It’s also an open thread.

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  1. 1.

    biff diggerence

    April 7, 2011 at 9:57 am

    Yes. And the precision required for still photography shows up in his film work. Think of the hotel scene in The Shining, the shot of the lobby, or the table scene in Clockwork. Geometrically flawless.

  2. 2.

    Cat Lady

    April 7, 2011 at 10:05 am

    Was he also an early adopter of acid? Cuz 2001 got my 12 year old self high.

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    biff diggerence

    April 7, 2011 at 10:06 am

    There is also this, taken when he was 16. Published in Look.

    http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3092/lookd.jpg

  4. 4.

    Amir_Khalid

    April 7, 2011 at 10:19 am

    I bookmarked Paul Krugman’s blog quite a while back. After this new New York Times paywall came down, I notice that, when I go there from my bookmark, I don’t get the bit of cruft obscuring the page — which I do with other NYT content once I hit the 20 article/month limit. I dunno, is it supposed to work this way? Or is it just the half-arsedness of the paywall in action?

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    Montysano

    April 7, 2011 at 10:21 am

    Nice work, but not great. The photos are ultra-contrasty, with not much gray, and have some focus/sharpness issues. I’m more of a fan of Salgado, whose expression of light and use of grain are pure genius.

    As someone who still shoots film and thrashes about in a dark room, I’m a lover of (properly used) grain, which is something that digital can’t approach. And you kids get off my damn lawn, etc. etc.

  6. 6.

    Legalize

    April 7, 2011 at 10:22 am

    Looking at anything created by Kubrick’s eye always makes me say “ahhhhh.” He is the master.

  7. 7.

    Amir_Khalid

    April 7, 2011 at 10:25 am

    about the photo. It seems to me like Kubrick (or his camera) was standing on the train track when he shot that. Please tell me I’m wrong.

  8. 8.

    mistermix

    April 7, 2011 at 10:27 am

    @Montysano: It looks like most of them are just scanned contact prints, so I’m not going to judge them on print quality.

  9. 9.

    cleek

    April 7, 2011 at 10:28 am

    the perspective in that pic (the roof lights, especially) makes me think the whole thing needs to be rotated about 3deg CCW – even though the two people in the center are perfectly vertical as-is. disorienting.

  10. 10.

    jibeaux

    April 7, 2011 at 10:28 am

    One thing I like about this blog is that the ads are for some incomprehensible right wing thing, “gold delivered to my door”, yarn, and TOMS.

    Targeted marketing — ur doin it halfassed.

    Anyone ever gotten the TOMS wedges, though? Mine are in the mail. I got the linen flats last year and I can’t say they held up terribly well to the elements — definitely an indoor shoe — but they were very, very comfy. Like slipper comfy.

  11. 11.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    April 7, 2011 at 10:33 am

    It’s been so long since I spent any real time in the comments…. But time, it makes the heart grow fonder, non?

    Also too: That photograph is wicked. I would put that above my desk in a heartbeat.

  12. 12.

    gnomedad

    April 7, 2011 at 10:44 am

    You said the S-word.

    Update: link not responding. Is BJ the new slashdot?

  13. 13.

    Roger Moore

    April 7, 2011 at 10:45 am

    Yah, Kubrick clearly cared a lot about the photographic/cinematographic side of his moviemaking. Another one that fanboys like to trot out is his use of an exotic Zeiss lens (50mm f/0.7!) originally developed for NASA’s moon program to shoot the candlelit scenes in Barry Lyndon without need for supplemental light. Those scenes really did turn out nicely, even if I’m not 100% sold on the movie as a whole.

  14. 14.

    danimal

    April 7, 2011 at 10:46 am

    You know who else features photos on his blog???

  15. 15.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    April 7, 2011 at 10:47 am

    @danimal: Hitler?

  16. 16.

    Poopyman

    April 7, 2011 at 10:54 am

    @Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: Haven’t found his blog yet, and I’d bet my employer would block it. The actual answer, of course, is “everybody”. But of course danimal was referring to the Brit–with–Irish–name–who–is–the–obsession–of–BJ–frontpagers.

  17. 17.

    stuckinred

    April 7, 2011 at 10:55 am

    linky no workee

  18. 18.

    4tehlulz

    April 7, 2011 at 10:55 am

    OT: WTF Japan? Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits off Japan coast

    Tsunami warning issued. Hope it’s nothing this time.

  19. 19.

    Poopyman

    April 7, 2011 at 10:56 am

    @Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: And what would he blog about? His struggle?

  20. 20.

    Gin & Tonic

    April 7, 2011 at 10:56 am

    Thanks.

  21. 21.

    Punchy

    April 7, 2011 at 10:56 am

    JAPAN WITH ANOTHER 7.4 SHAKER….Tsunami warning already issued.

    Damn, when it rains, it pours.

  22. 22.

    Poopyman

    April 7, 2011 at 10:58 am

    @4tehlulz: It was reported last week that the biggie last month put extra pressure on faults nearer Tokyo, so this should have been somewhat expected.

  23. 23.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    April 7, 2011 at 11:00 am

    @jibeaux:

    the tebow jockey ad is stalking me, currently. if tebow is selling it, i would buy the competitor at quadruple the price. the whole marketing of tebow was almost enough to make me hate college football in its entirety.

  24. 24.

    Mnemosyne

    April 7, 2011 at 11:00 am

    @cleek:

    G was a production major in film school and apparently Kubrick does just about everything “wrong” in his films when it comes to the classical rules of how you compose a shot. But because Kubrick made up his own rules and stuck to them, the films work anyway.

  25. 25.

    Corner Stone

    April 7, 2011 at 11:01 am

    Can we exit this clown car now?
    Libyan rebels say NATO airstrikes hit their forces

  26. 26.

    Gin & Tonic

    April 7, 2011 at 11:03 am

    @Roger Moore: Not only that, he apparently had to pretty extensively rebuild that lens because it was designed as a still, not cine lens originally.

    And it looks like I’m not the only one to associate “2001” with acid. Or so I’ve heard.

  27. 27.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    April 7, 2011 at 11:03 am

    @Poopyman:

    old lesbians who look like prussian field marshalls.

  28. 28.

    Roger Moore

    April 7, 2011 at 11:04 am

    @4tehlulz:
    It’s called an aftershock. You get them with earthquakes. It’s just that the earlier 9.0 was so damn big that even the aftershocks are big enough to qualify as serious quakes.

  29. 29.

    4tehlulz

    April 7, 2011 at 11:09 am

    @Roger Moore: So the tsunami is merely an “aftertsunami”?

  30. 30.

    Roger Moore

    April 7, 2011 at 11:12 am

    @Gin & Tonic:
    IIRC, the lens didn’t require that much work; it just needed a focusing mechanism that would let it focus close enough for nearby subjects instead of something that was effectively at infinity. The bigger work was on the camera, which had to be rebuilt because the lens had a radically shorter backfocus than a typical cinematographic lens. IIRC, a typical Panavision camera has a backfocus of something like 55mm to accommodate a reflex viewer while the Zeiss was around 7mm. Given the paper thin DOF of a lens that fast, he must have had a very good focus puller to get anything in focus without being able to see what he was shooting. He also had somebody build him a converter for the lens so he could use it for wider angle shots without losing any speed.

  31. 31.

    cleek

    April 7, 2011 at 11:15 am

    @Corner Stone:
    no.

    troubles are signs that we need to redouble our efforts.

  32. 32.

    jibeaux

    April 7, 2011 at 11:18 am

    @Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:
    I guess I should be grateful for the “President Trump?” newsmax thing, maybe.

  33. 33.

    Roger Moore

    April 7, 2011 at 11:19 am

    @4tehlulz:
    Sorry, that came out wrong. I was responding to the “WTF” part, saying that aftershocks are a normal and reasonably predictable part of any earthquake. It didn’t mean to suggest that a 7.4 aftershock was something we should just laugh off.

  34. 34.

    Pangloss

    April 7, 2011 at 11:20 am

    Since that’s a Santa Fe train, photo was taken at Chicago’s Dearborn Station, which is still standing. More about the station here:

    http://www.southloophistory.org/buildings/dearbornstation.htm

  35. 35.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    April 7, 2011 at 11:20 am

    @Poopyman: I know… but come on! The Hitler answer was low-hanging fruit!

  36. 36.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    April 7, 2011 at 11:20 am

    @cleek: Oops, wrong… never mind.

  37. 37.

    4tehlulz

    April 7, 2011 at 11:21 am

    @Roger Moore: Fair enough; I was WTFing the new tsunami in the area, not necessarily the quake.

  38. 38.

    Gin & Tonic

    April 7, 2011 at 11:25 am

    @Roger Moore: Good article about the lens re-build here.

  39. 39.

    Poopyman

    April 7, 2011 at 11:32 am

    @Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: Eh, Hitler doesn’t strike me as the blogging type anyhow. But I’ll betcha Franz Liebkind would be the blogging type.

  40. 40.

    debbie

    April 7, 2011 at 6:45 pm

    @biff diggerence:

    Yes. And the precision required for still photography shows up in his film work.

    I’m with you on that, but what some call precision, others would call chilly.

    With the exception of Eyes Wide Shut, every frame Kubrick shot was, I think, flawless. Someone should have noticed what he was doing with Cruise and Kidman and figured out he was ailing.

  41. 41.

    Xenos

    April 8, 2011 at 4:35 am

    If you follow the link, there is a five frame sequence of wrestling which is quite astonishing for photjournalism. The composition and narrative flow of the pictures is quite an accomplishment for something worked out on the fly in the course of a wrestling match.

    I am not a huge fan of contact prints as finished work – I think there is a lot of tone depth that could have been brought out with proper darkroom work. But it sure makes me nostalgic for the smell of developer and stop solution.

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