Editing Stanley Kubrick (section)

== Photographic career ==
[[File:Stanley Kubrick (1949 portrait by Phillip Harrington - cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of Kubrick with a camera at the [[Sadler's Wells Theatre]] in London, 1949, while a staff photographer for ''[[Look (American magazine)|Look]]'']]
While in high school, Kubrick was chosen as an official school photographer. In the mid-1940s, since he was unable to gain admission to day session classes at colleges, he briefly attended evening classes at the [[City College of New York]],{{sfn|LoBrutto|1999|p=33}} which had open admissions. Eventually, he sold a photographic series to ''[[Look (American magazine)|Look]]'' magazine,{{sfn|Duncan|2003|p=19}}{{efn|1 [[pound sterling]] was equivalent to US$4.03 in 1945.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/dollhist-graph.htm |title=2: Dollar Exchange Rate from 1940 |publisher=Miketodd.net |access-date=August 24, 2015 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151213020252/http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/dollhist-graph.htm |archivedate=December 13, 2015}}</ref>}} which was printed on June 26, 1945. Kubrick supplemented his income by playing [[chess]] "for quarters" in [[Washington Square Park]] and various Manhattan chess clubs.{{sfn|Baxter|1997|p=32}}

In 1946, he became an apprentice photographer for ''Look'' and later a full-time staff photographer. G. Warren Schloat Jr., another new photographer for the magazine at the time, recalled that he thought Kubrick lacked the personality to make it as a director in Hollywood, remarking, "Stanley was a quiet fellow. He didn't say much. He was thin, skinny, and kind of poor—like we all were."{{sfn|LoBrutto|1999|p=38}} Kubrick quickly became known for his story-telling in photographs. His first, published on April 16, 1946, was titled "A Short Story from a Movie Balcony" and staged a fracas between a man and a woman, during which the man is slapped in the face, caught genuinely by surprise.{{sfn|Duncan|2003|p=19}} In another assignment, Kubrick took 18 pictures of various people waiting in a dental office. It has been said retrospectively that this project demonstrated an early interest of Kubrick in capturing individuals and their feelings in mundane environments.{{sfn|LoBrutto|1999|p=36}} In 1948, he was sent to [[Portugal]] to document a travel piece, and later that year covered the [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus]] in [[Sarasota, Florida]].{{sfn|Baxter|1997|p=30}}{{efn|Coverage of the circus gave Kubrick grounds for developing his documentary skills and capturing athletic movements on camera; the photos were published in a four-page spread for the May 25 issue, "Meet the People". The same issue also covered his journalism work documenting the work of opera star [[Risë Stevens]] with deaf children.{{sfn|LoBrutto|1999|pp=41–2}}}}

[[File:Chicago—City of Contrasts (1949 photograph by Stanley Kubrick).jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Photo of a Chicago streetscape taken by Kubrick for ''Look'' magazine, 1949, from [[State/Lake station]]]]
A [[boxing]] enthusiast, Kubrick eventually began photographing boxing matches for the magazine. His earliest, "Prizefighter", was published on January 18, 1949, and captured a boxing match and the events leading up to it, featuring American middleweight [[Walter Cartier]].{{sfn|LoBrutto|1999|p=59}} On April 2, 1949, he published photo essay "Chicago-City of Extremes" in ''Look'', which displayed his talent early on for creating atmosphere with imagery. The following year, in July 1950, the magazine published his photo essay, "Working Debutante &ndash; [[Betsy von Furstenberg]]", which featured a [[Pablo Picasso]] portrait of Angel F. de Soto in the background.{{sfn|Duncan|2003|pp=16–7}} Kubrick was also assigned to photograph numerous jazz musicians, from [[Frank Sinatra]] and [[Erroll Garner]] to [[George Lewis (clarinetist)|George Lewis]], [[Eddie Condon]], [[Phil Napoleon]], [[Papa Celestin]], [[Alphonse Picou]], [[Muggsy Spanier]], [[Sharkey Bonano]], and others.{{sfn|LoBrutto|1999|p=52}}

Kubrick married his high-school sweetheart Toba Metz on May 28, 1948. They lived together in a small apartment at 36 West 16th Street, off [[Sixth Avenue]] just north of [[Greenwich Village]].{{sfn|Baxter|1997|p=31}} During this time, Kubrick began frequenting film screenings at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] and New York City cinemas. He was inspired by the complex, fluid camerawork of French director [[Max Ophüls]], whose films influenced Kubrick's visual style, and by director [[Elia Kazan]], whom he described as America's "best director" at that time, with his ability of "performing miracles" with his actors.{{sfn|Ciment|1980|p=36}} Friends began to notice Kubrick had become obsessed with the art of filmmaking—one friend, [[David Vaughan (dance archivist)|David Vaughan]], observed that Kubrick would scrutinize the film at the cinema when it went silent, and would go back to reading his paper when people started talking.{{sfn|Duncan|2003|p=19}} He spent many hours reading books on film theory and writing notes. He was particularly inspired by [[Sergei Eisenstein]] and [[Arthur Rothstein]], the photographic technical director of ''Look'' magazine.{{sfn|LoBrutto|1999|p=37}}{{efn| Kubrick was particularly fascinated with Eisenstein's ''[[Alexander Nevsky (film)|Alexander Nevsky]]'' and played the [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]] soundtrack to the film over and over constantly to the point that his sister broke it in fury.{{sfn|Duncan|2003|p=23}}}}