Rainer Crone Stanley Kubrick Drama & Shadows: Photographs 1945-1950

Rainer Crone STANLEY KUBRICK DRAMA & SHADOWS: PHOTOGRAPHS 1945-1950

London: Phaidon Press, 2005

In Stanley Kubrick's photographs—shot in the year's immediately after World War Il—we are not confronted with an ambition to portray a historical era.... Kubrick's photography created not only visual archives of the time but also social critiques that expressed his intuitive mind and subversive sense of humor. Each of his amazingly thought-out pictures is a conscious challenge to the viewer's own perception, pushing the potentials of representation and the pho tographic medium. Kubrick developed this singular quality in his photographs and applied it through all his films-each of which can be read as a sequence of perfectly composed still photographs.

-Rainer Crone