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‘A Reading Room on Wheels, a Lover’s Lane, and, After 11 PM, a Flophouse’

Daring Fireball·Saturday, 18 April 2026·about 1 month ago
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Vittoria Benzine, at Artnet ( via Oliver Thomas ): The singular American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick saw the little details. He even saw the future . But, most of all, he saw people, with all their quirks. Kubrick’s films, from Dr. Strangelove (1964) to The Shining (1980), offer proof of this — as do his earliest photos, produced during the 1940s. One new trove of 18 such images will get its first-ever outing next week, when Los Angeles-based Duncan Miller Gallery presents the find alongside works by contemporary photographer Jacqueline Woods at the Photography Show in New York. [...] The photos are some of the earliest images that the director made for Look. “New York’s subway trains are a reading room on wheels, a lover’s lane and, after 11 p.m., a flophouse,” Kubrick’s subsequent photo essay accompanying his subway visions opined. I’ve seen some of these before, but not all.…

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