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the first book to present the previously unpublished photographs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.