Stanley Kubrick, drama & shadows

Stanley Kubrick Drama & Shadows: Photographs 1945-1950 is the first book to present the previously unpublished photographs of the renowned filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), taken between 1945 and 1950 and printed from recently discovered original negatives. Shortly after graduating from high school and before making his first films, Kubrick shot roughly 12,000 images as a staff photographer for the New York-based Look magazine.

Aimed at a broad audience, Stanley Kubrick Drama & Shadows reveals the director's early experimentations with image composition and his attraction to dramatic, often psychologically intense subjects and narratives that would both become elements of his recognizable style as a director.

Divided into four thematic chapters ("Metropolitan Life," "Entertainment," "Celebrities," and "Human Behavior"), this book features a carefully selected group of approximately 400 photographs organized into thirty-one photographic stories. An insightful introductory essay by author Rainer Crone provides context and examines Kubrick's photographs in relation to the history of photography.

Rainer Crone holds the Chair for 20th-Century Art and Media at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. Formerly teaching at Yale University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University, he is the author of the first monograph on Andy Warhol (1970) and has since widely published on twentieth-century art and artists. His most recent books include: Louise Bourgeois, the Secret of the Cells (Prestel, 1998), Auguste Rodin: Eros and Creativity (Prestel, 1991), and Kasimir Malevitch: The Climax of Disclosure (Reaktion Books, 1991). He lives in Munich and New York.

Petrus Schaesberg is editor of the catalogue raisonné of works on paper by Edward Ruscha and Chief Curator of the International Center of Curatorial Studies (ICCARUS) at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, where he received his D.Phil. in 2004 on "The Concept of Collage: Paradigm Shifts in its History from Pablo Picasso to Edward Ruscha." Schaesberg has published several essays on contemporary art and is coauthor (with Rainer Crone) of Louise Bourgeois, the Secret of the Cells.

Alexandra von Stosch is a curator and writer based in Berlin. In 2004, she obtained her D.Phil. at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich on the topic of "Stanley Kubrick's Pictorial Universe: Photographs 1945-1950." She is a founding member of the International Center of Curatorial Studies (ICCARUS), operating in Munich and New York, and was artistic director from 1993 to 1997 for Art Public Contemporain in Paris.

Jeff Wall was born in 1946 in Vancouver, Canada, where he lives and works. In the 1970s, he began making large backlit transparencies that employ elements of cinematography. Since 1991, Wall has used digital technology and since 1996 has also worked in traditional black and white. His pictures have been widely exhibited over the past two decades and he has been the subject of numerous monographs and other studies.