Stanley Kubrick: Photographs [matthewhunt.com]

Kubrick's Photographs

At high school (1942-1946), Kubrick took pictures for the school magazine (Portfolio) and yearbook. He also sold images to Look magazine, and worked as a photojournalist for the publication until 1950. After leaving Look to become a director, Kubrick maintained his interest in photography, though had almost no further images published. The sole exception is a colour self-portrait for the cover of Newsweek #79.1 (3/1/1972).

This is the most extensive list of Kubrick's photographs ever compiled. The photo-story The Baffling Corpse (Look #10.1, 8/1/1946), sometimes attributed to Kubrick, is not included here, as it was in fact photographed by George Heyer. One photo-story (Wash Day In A Self-Service Laundry) is not listed, as its publication date is unknown. Unless stated otherwise, all images were photographed in New York and published in black-and-white.

Look 5/8/1947 Look 30/8/1949 Look 15/8/1950 Look 18/7/1950

Look: 1945-1950

1945

(#9.13, 26/6/1945)
[newsvendor reacting to the death of Franklin D Roosevelt]
Kids At A Ball Game (#9.19, 16/10/1945)
[eight photographs of various children watching a baseball game]

1946

[people sitting on park benches in Central Park]
[two children fighting in the street]
Fun At An Amusement Park
[roller-coasters, a palm-reader, and a 'sex-o-meter' machine at the Palisades amusement park in New Jersey]
Are You A Fatalist? (#10.1, 8/1/1946)
[photographs to accompany a Psychoquiz personality test]
(#10.1, 8/1/1946)
[recording the Boston Blackie radio show]
Teacher Puts 'Ham' In Hamlet (#10.7, 2/4/1946)
[Aaron Traister teaching Hamlet]
A Short-Short In A Movie Balcony (#10.8, 16/4/1946)
[four photographs showing an unsuccessful seduction in a cinema: a boy and girl sit together, they look at each other, and she slaps him]
A Woman Buys A Hat (#10.12, 11/6/1946)
[a woman browses for hats in a department store]
How Many Times Did You Propose? (#10.15, 23/7/1946)
[portraits of Lee Bowman, Harry Cohen, Mario Mascolo, Vincent Costello, and Manning Halpert for a Meet The People vox pop]
How A Monkey Looks To People.... And How People Look To A Monkey (#10.17, 20/8/1946)
[visitors at a zoo stare at captive monkeys, and vice-versa]
Buy Victory Bonds (#10.18, 3/9/1946)
[Victory Bonds advertisement]
What Was Your Childhood Ambition? (#10.19, 17/9/1946)
[portraits of Sunny Skylar, Art Ford, DL Toffenetti, Martha Rountree, John Sebastian, Jayne Westbrook, Thomas Carroll, Vincente Gomez, Joan Roberts, Nancy White, James Gardiner, and Rosmarie Brancato (twelve photographs in total) for a Meet The People vox pop]
Do You Have Imaginary Illnesses? (#10.19, 17/9/1946)
[three photographs to accompany a Psychoquiz hypochondria test: a boy receiving a diphtheria vaccination, a bed-ridden woman, and a woman opening a telegram envelope]
Dentist's Office (#10.20, 1/10/1946)
[eighteen photographs of patients in a dentist's waiting-room]
How Would You Spend $1,000 In A Week? (#10.24, 26/11/1946)
[portraits of Alexander Singer, Al Mele, Pat Reinders, John Conte, Roberta Adams, Nikke Montan, and others for a Meet The People vox pop]
Bronx Street Scene (#10.24, 26/11/1946)
[two women admiring their friend's haircut]
(#10.24, 26/11/1946)
[portraits of Johnny Grant interviewing showgirls, a monkey, a woman being massaged, and others]
Midsummer Nights In New York (#10.24, 26/11/1946)
[various nightclubs, and Ezio Pinza performing in South Pacific]
What's Your Idea Of A Good Time? (#10.25, 10/12/1946)
[portraits of Marvin Traub, Harold Shaw, Kubrick's first wife Toba Metz, and others, for a Meet The People vox pop]

1947

[high school pupils in an art class]
[visitors and paintings at the Museum of Modern Art]
[Mickey, a Brooklyn shoe-shine boy, shining shoes, counting money, doing his homework, boxing, climbing on railings, and caring for his pigeons]
[on the set of The Naked City]
[three performers from the Broadway musical High Button Shoes]
[spectators, horses, and sweepers at the Aqueduct racetrack]
[preparations for, and cars participating in, a road rally]
[children at an orphanage]
[a military airshow]
[a man and his family in Cape Cod]
[a woman changing her baby's nappy]
[a javelin-thrower]
Television: It Will Start To Grow Up (1/1947)
[the layout of a television studio]
What Part Of America Would You Like To See This Year? (1/1947)
[Meet The People vox pop portraits]
(#11.1, 7/1/1947)
How To Spot A Communist (#11.5, 4/3/1947)
[photograph of Joseph Stalin's book Foundations Of Leninism]
Life And Love On The New York Subway (#11.5, 4/3/1947)
[clandestine portraits of commuters, including Toba Metz, sleeping, gossiping, and flirting on the subway]
Cobb Reasons It Out (#11.6, 18/3/1947)
[portraits of Don Briggs, Jan Miner, and Paul Potter to accompany a Photocrime feature]
Baby Wears Out 205lb Athlete (#11.6, 18/3/1947)
[Bob Beldon playing with Dennis Henry]
First Look At Mirror Bewilders Baby (#11.10, 13/5/1947)
[George Eckert and his reflection]
(#11.16, 5/8/1947)
[colour cover photograph of a boy soaked by a running tap]
(#11.16, 5/8/1947)
[photographs of a knotted rope and the Brazilian flag to accompany a Psychoquiz feature]
I Found Freedom In America: Jack Milnik Is A Happy War Orphan (#11.16, 5/8/1947)
[portraits of Jack Milnik]
Family Full Of Health: The Jantzens Enjoy Keeping Fit (#11.17, 19/8/1947)
[Gene Jantzen with his wife Pat and son Kent in Bartelso, Illinois]
Children Tell How They Should Be Punished (#11.19, 16/9/1947)
[portraits of children speaking into microphones, for a Meet The People feature]
Walkathon: The World's Wackiest Show - It Gets 4,000 Customers A Night (#11.20, 30/9/1947)
[portraits of Flo McGinnis, Bob Robinson, Johnny Makar, Johnny Longo, King Brady, and others at a Kansas City speed derby]

1948

[a group of Freemasons outside the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia]
[portrait of two children (Phyllis and Barbara) and their rescuers (Henry F and Edward B)]
[Nelly Don and her dress factory]
[a man visiting the Museum of Art in Sarasota]
[a man at a handwriting-analysis booth]
[portraits of Henry Koerner]
[portraits of Jacques Lipchitz]
[actors in a television soap-opera]
[a building site]
[insecticide being sprayed by trucks and aeroplanes]
[portraits of Miss America]
(#12.1, 6/1/1948)
[portrait of Doris Day]
Bubble Gum Contest (#12.2, 20/1/1948)
[a bubble gum-blowing competition]
(#12.2, 20/1/1948)
[an appendicitis x-ray]
It Happened Here (#12.5, 2/3/1948)
[portrait of Nanette Frederies]
(#12.6, 16/3/1948)
[Barbara Jo Walker at a Methodist Youth Conference]
While Mama Shops (#12.6, 16/3/1948)
[children playing in prams whilst their mothers are shopping]
(#12.6, 16/3/1948)
[a Photocrime photo-story in which a woman is poisoned]
The Boss Talks It Over With Labor (#12.7, 30/3/1948)
[Eric O Johnson addresses his employees in Connersville, Indiana]
Art Gallery Dali Exhibition (#12.7, 30/3/1948)
[private view of a Salvador Dali exhibition]
(#12.9, 27/4/1948)
[John Carradine at a launderette]
Rheumatic Fever: Childhood's Most Neglected Disease (#12.9, 27/4/1948)
[children with rheumatic fever at La Rabida Jackson Park Sanitorium, Chicago]
Columbia: It's New Head Is Eisenhower (#12.10, 11/5/1948)
[profile of Columbia University, including the library, a painting class with a nude model, a laboratory, a caged rat, and a portrait of Dwight D Eisenhower]
How The Circus Gets Set (#12.11, 25/5/1948)
[backstage at the Ringling circus, Florida, including the ringmaster with a clown, tight-rope-walkers, trapeze artists, a tattooed man with rings stretching his nipples, a monkey on a lead and on stilts, a gorilla, an elephant, a leopard, a giraffe, a tiger, and a man somersaulting over a horse]
(#12.11, 25/5/1948)
[portraits of Electric Light and Power employees]
(#12.11, 25/5/1948)
[portraits of Dale Carnegie and his wife]
(#12.11, 25/5/1948)
[a party for deaf children]
Mooseheart: The Child City (#12.12, 8/6/1948)
[pupils at a preparatory school in Mooseheart, Illinois, with one of their teachers, with a cow, doing the splits, and eating a meal]
(#12.12, 8/6/1948)
[portraits of a fashion model]
One-Man Track Team: Irving Mondschein Reaches For Olympic Honors (#12.12, 8/6/1948)
[portraits of Irving Mondschein during a decathalon]
New York World Art Center (#12.12, 8/6/1948)
[portrait of George Grosz]
Holiday In Portugal (#12.16, 3/8/1948)
[a Portugal travelogue with Jan Cook and her husband Bill, including a woman in a burka silhouetted on a beach, and a windmill]
Bumper Baby Crop Starts School (#12.17, 17/8/1948)
[children trying on new clothes]
Wally Conquers Polio (#12.21, 12/10/1948)
[portraits of Wally Ward]
(#12.21, 12/10/1948)
[artworks by Frank Sinatra, John Garfield, Joe Louis, Katharine Cornell, and Esme Sarnoff]
What Makes Their Eyes Pop? (#12.21, 12/10/1948)
[portraits of gallery-visitors viewing the Mona Lisa]
New Toy Spurs Milk Drinking (#12.25, 7/12/1948)
[a boy making a toy train from milk cartons]
How Eight Look Photographers See Jane Greer (#12.26, 21/12/1948)
[portrait of Jane Greer]

1949

[portrait of Carl Milles]
[a revue at the St Louis Advertising Club]
[men modelling new clothes]
[people at an airport]
[recording the Kukla Fran And Ollie television show, including portraits of Fran Allison and Burr Tillstrom]
[female pedestrians, female diners at the Stork Club, and a department store's hosiery display]
[showgirls preparing and performing at the Copacabana nightclub, Manhattan]
[a girl playing with her pet raccoon]
[spectators at a roller derby]
[Milton Berle and others at Bop City nightclub]
[portraits of various party guests]
[portraits of Rosemary Williams applying make-up, drinking coffee, and reading in bed]
[portraits of a woman and her partner, and of the woman at a casting session with Mike Todd]
[portraits of a woman posed in front of several silhouette images]
[portraits of a man holding a model of a brain]
[a woman grooming poodles]
[the marriage of Buddy Baer and May Mann]
[portraits of Moira Shearer, Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann, Frederick Ashton, Nadia Nerina, and other members of the Sadler's Wells ballet company]
[students at Rutgers University playing sports]
Prizefighter (#13.2, 18/1/1949)
[a day in the life of Walter Cartier, the inspiration for Day Of The Fight; twenty photographs: Cartier with his manager Bobby Gleason, with his brother Vincent, eating breakfast with his aunt Eva, weighing in at the State Athletic Commission, having his eyes examined, with one of his neighbours, praying in a church, on the beach at Staten Island with Dolores Germaine, rowing a sailboat, spectating at Yankee Stadium, playing with his nephew Charlie, in his dressing-room, fighting Jimmy Mangia at Roosevelt Stadium in New Jersey, during a training session, and on the street in Greenwich Village]
Taft Meets The People - And Proves A Human Campaigner (#13.3, 1/2/1949)
[Robert Taft campaigning for re-election in Ohio]
America's Man Godfrey: One Of The Highest Paid And Most Listened To Entertainers In The Nation (#13.3, 1/2/1949)
[portraits of Arthur Godfrey with his wife Mary, his son Mike, his daughter Pat, Gene Autry, Jack Carson, and others]
Fight Night At The Garden: Some Fans Roar For Gore (#13.4, 15/2/1949)
[Bill Corum, Don Murphy, and a large crowd all watching a boxing match between Eduardo Carrasco and Nunzio Carto at Madison Square Garden]
Lobster Comes Home (#13.5, 1/3/1949)
[portraits of Jose Ferrer and Phyllis Hill eating lobsters]
The American Look Is A Proud Thing (#13.6, 15/3/1949)
[photographs of fashion models; luggage; a purse and umbrella; an airline ticket; a menu, telegram, playbill, and champagne glass; a baby's bottle and rattle; a tennis racket and skiing poles; office equipment; cleaning equipment; a portrait of Dorothy McGuire]
(#13.7, 29/3/1949)
[photographs of the Keeley Institute]
Chicago: City Of Extremes (#13.8, 12/4/1949)
[landscapes and portraits photographed in Chicago, including the city's streets illuminated at night, a dress shop, a poor woman washing dishes, and a lavish banquet]
(#13.9, 26/4/1949)
[Bert Parks recording the Stop The Music radio show]
Pint-Size Sculptor With Big Ideas: Koren DerHarootian (#13.10, 10/5/1949)
[profile of Koren DerHarootian]
Gridiron Show: St Louis Stages Its Own (#13.10, 10/5/1949)
[Forest Smith and AP Kaufman at the St Louis Advertising Club Gridiron Dinner]
University Of Michigan (#13.10, 10/5/1949)
[profile of the University of Michigan, including a man and woman holding hands, a woman lighting a man's cigarette, a man and woman dancing, a man sitting beside a globe, and a man with a dog; portraits include Alexander Grant Ruthven, Ralph A Sawyer, Randolph G Adams, T Hawley Tapping, Jean Paul Slusser, CW Spooner, HR Crane, Ben Oosterbaan, Matt Mann, Val Johnson, Al Wistert, Pat Crotty, Buzz Durant, Carolyn Daugherty, Albert Samborn, Dick Maloy, Harriet Friedman, Arthur Dudden, Katryna Dudden, and others]
(#13.12, 7/6/1949)
[sportswear on a tennis court]
Father's Day For Father Berle (#13.13, 21/6/1949)
[portraits of Milton Berle and his daughter Vickie, Ezio Pinza and his son Peter, and Peter Pinza alone]
Montgomery Clift... Glamour Boy In Baggy Pants (#13.15, 19/7/1949)
[portraits of Montgomery Clift, showing him drinking milk, yawning while reading a script, playing with a baby, carrying his coat, drinking coffee, and drunk on the floor]
(#13.5, 19/7/1949)
[portrait of Arthur Godfrey]
(#13.16, 2/8/1949)
[portraits of Guy Lombardo]
(#13.16, 2/8/1949)
[the Broadway production of Miss Liberty]
(#13.17, 16/8/1949)
[a Lexington Avenue subway station]
(#13.17, 16/8/1949)
[portraits of Vaughn Monroe]
(#13.17, 16/8/1949)
[profile of Masterpiece, a prize-winning poodle]
The American Look... Sweaters (#13.18, 30/8/1949)
[colour cover photograph of a model wearing a red jumper]
Philadelphia's First Beaux Arts Ball (#13.19, 13/9/1949)
[portraits of Royal Lewando, Belinda Elson, Robert Newman, Harold Diehl, Sally Kravitch, Nelson Reed, Charles Coiner, Paul Darrow, Gloria Braggiotti, and others at the Philadelphia Beaux Arts Ball]
(#13.19, 13/9/1949)
[portraits of Peter Arno]
Teenage Columnist (#13.20, 27/9/1949)
[portraits of Pat White]
(#13.20, 27/9/1949)
[Jule Styne, Anita Loos, and others at the auditions for the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes musical]
Peter Arno: Sophisticated Cartoonist (#13.20, 27/9/1949)
[portraits of Peter Arno, Joan Sinclair, and Tom Murphy]
World's Most Escape-Proof Paddy-Wagon (#13.20, 27/9/1949)
[the world's most escape-proof prison van, including images of the prisoners inside it, a gun, and some bullets]
(10/1949)
[portrait of Frank Sinatra]
Nehru: Charles Baskerville Paints India's Prime Minister (#13.21, 11/10/1949)
[portraits of Charles Baskerville]
Home-Town Hero (#13.22, 25/10/1949)
[portraits of Lou Maxon celebrating Lou Maxon Day in Onaway, Michigan]
Meet The Chairman Of The GOP (#13.22, 25/10/1949)
[portraits of Guy G Gabrielson and his family]
A Dog's Life In The Big City (#13.23, 8/11/1949)
[dogs in various urban locations]
New York Society Ball (#13.25, 6/12/1949)
[portraits of Nancy Oakes, Ilka Chase, Norton Brown, Pat Ogden, Enrico Donati, Janet Blair, Sally DeMarco, and others at the Wedgewood Ball]
(#13.25, 6/12/1949)
[portraits of Jere Whaley]
(#13.25, 6/12/1949)
[a new range of luggage]
(#13.25, 6/12/1949)
[portrait of Buffalo Bob Smith]

1950

[the produce, staff, and customers of several supermarkets]
[a man sightseeing, including photographs of the Radio City Rockettes]
[Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy recording a television show, with guests Dorothy Kilgallen and John Daly]
[children playing with various farm-themed toys]
[portraits of Bert Perks, the audience, the set, and the contestants on the television quiz Break The Bank]
[Jinx Falkenberg, Mary Martin, Bernard Baruch, and Tex McCreary at a charity event for cerebral palsy sufferers]
[Alben Barkley and the attendees of a furniture convention]
[portraits of Walter Dropo and his manager during a Boston Red Sox baseball game]
[various scenes in the Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington DC: doctors performing surgery, patients, and laboratories]
(1/1950)
[portraits of middle-aged couples]
(#14.1, 3/1/1950)
[portrait of Robert Montgomery]
(#14.1, 3/1/1950)
[brain-damage caused by boxing]
The Mid-Century Look Is Now The American Look (#14.1, 3/1/1950)
[portraits of Ann Klem, Gene Wallace, Phyllis Rowand, and Nina Rowand]
(#14.2, 17/1/1950)
[portrait of Dwight D Eisenhower]
Sinatra And Kirsten Take Richmond (#14.3, 31/1/1950)
[portraits of Frank Sinatra and Dorothy Kirsten at public engagements in Richmond]
Rocky Graziano: He's A Good Boy Now (#14.4, 14/2/1950)
[portraits of Rocky Graziano, another boxing day-in-the-life; features Graziano with Whitney Bimstein, Irving Cohen, Eddie Marotta, Roxie Graziano, during a telephone call, and boxing with Sonny Horne]
Lady Lecturer Hits The Road (#14.5, 28/2/1950)
[Emily Kimbrough giving lectures in St Louis]
Traveling Saleswoman USA (#14.6, 14/3/1950)
[portraits of Sue Hughes as she travels around Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennesse; also, portraits of Margaret Barrows, Deane Elliot, Florence Miller, Morton Baum, Red Miller, Lee Gladstein, Bonner Wilkinson, Francelle Gorbett, James Lanham, and others]
(#14.6, 14/3/1950)
[Serge Koussevitsky, Stella Adler, Oscar Levant, Aaron Copland, and William Kapell; also, portraits of Leonard Bernstein playing the piano, in his dressing-gown, reading, and wearing swimming-trunks]
(#14.7, 28/3/1950)
[portraits of Bill Cullen, Gene Tierney, Mercedes McCambridge, and others on the Quick As A Flash television quiz]
(#14.8, 11/4/1950)
[Don Newcombe at a baseball game]
Phil Rizzuto: The Yankee Nipper (#14.10, 9/5/1950)
[portraits of Phil Rizzuto and Joe DiMaggio]
Ken Murray Tries Out TV Talent (#14.10, 9/5/1950)
[Ken Murray auditioning women for his Ken Murray Show on television]
(#14.10, 9/5/1950)
[portraits of Phil Rizzuto with Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, and Vic Raschi]
The GOP Has A Roosevelt Too (#14.11, 23/5/1950)
[portraits of Theodore Roosevelt and his family]
Dixieland Jazz Is "Hot" Again (#14.12, 6/6/1950)
[portraits of Jazz musicians and their intruments: George Lewis, Elmer Talbot, Alcide Pavageau, Lawrence Marrero, Jim Robinson, Joe Watkins, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, Eddie Condon, Phil Napoleon, Oscar Celestin, Alphonse Picou, Muggsy Spanier, Art Hodes, Pee Wee Russell, Lee Collins, Georg Brunis, Sharkey Bonano, Red Nichols, Isaac Mason, and others performing at various New Orleans jazz clubs]
Double Or Nothing Guests See Sights Of Hollywood (#14.12, 6/6/1950)
[recording the Double Or Nothing radio show, including portraits of Judy Canova, Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Edith Head, and others]
(#14.13, 20/6/1950)
[profile of Russ Hodges]
The Ballad Of Peggy Lee (#14.15, 18/7/1950)
[portraits of Peggy Lee and Dave Barbour in Valley City]
The Debutante Who Went To Work (#14.15, 18/7/1950)
[a day-in-the-life profile of Betsy VonFurstenberg, including a colour cover photograph; VonFurstenberg is shown taking her poodle for a trim, playing with a cat, dancing, playing tennis, sitting beneath Pablo Picasso's 'blue period' portrait of Angel Fernandez DeSoto, and reading on a window-seat; also featuring portraits of Sandra Stralem, Buddy Joyce, John Hamlin, and Gilbert Miller]
(#14.15, 18/7/1950)
[Roy Rogers with children wearing cowboy costumes]
What Every Teenager Should Know About Dating (#14.16, 1/8/1950)
[teenagers out on dates]
(#14.16, 1/8/1950)
[portraits of Gene Autry at Madison Square Garden]
(#14.16, 1/8/1950)
[portraits of Erroll Garner]
Faye Emerson: Young Lady In A Hurry (#14.17, 15/8/1950)
[colour cover photograph and ten other portraits of Faye Emerson, for a Picture Personality feature: filming her Fifteen With Faye television show, rehearsing with Sam Wanamaker, having her portrait painted by Mildred Atkins, at the Roxy theatre with Sid Caesar, at a party with Jack Moone, with an interior decorator in her apartment, being interviewed by Eleanor Harris, at Costello's restaurant with Robert Q Lewis, and in the office of her production company]
Hair Coloring Becomes Part Of The American Look (#14.17, 15/8/1950)
[one colour photograph of women on a beach, one photograph of a blonde woman, and four photographs of Faye Emerson dying her hair honey blonde]
Canasta Mistakes You Can Avoid (#14.17, 15/8/1950)
[one photograph of a hand holding twelve playing-cards]
Our Last Frontier: Transoceanic TV (#14.19, 12/9/1950)
[David Sarnoff in a television studio]
Red Rolfe: The Heart Of The Tiger (#14.20, 26/9/1950)
[three photographs: portraits of Red Rolfe with John McHale, Wish Egan, Bill McGowan, Ed Hurley, Dick Bartell, and the Detroit Tigers baseball team]
Mind Your Manners (#14.20, 26/9/1950)
[seven photographs: Alan Ludden interviewing Betty Ann Kelly, Janet Bronson, Lewis P James, Patricia McCormick, Joan McAlpin, Margaret Andrews, and Fred Smith for a Meet The People vox pop]
Record Guide (#14.20, 26/9/1950)
[one portrait of George Lewis performing with his clarinet, with other musicians in the background]
What Teenagers Should Know About Love (#14.21, 10/10/1950)
[teenagers with their parents and pets, and 'I hate love!' written in lipstick]
The Look All-American Baseball Team (#14.21, 10/10/1950)
[Ralph Kiner during and after a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game]
Jealousy: A Threat To Marriage (#14.22, 24/10/1950)
[a woman suspects her husband is unfaithful]
How To Check Your City's Health (#14.24, 21/11/1950)
[Rosemary Howren participating in a health-screening programme]
Fifty Years Of Model Railroads (#14.25, 5/12/1950)
[JL Cowen, Lawrence Cowen, and George C Marshall with model trains]
News Team (#14.25, 5/12/1950)
[CBS news reporters in the studio]