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Stanley Kubrick, photographer

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Who knew? I've always thought of Kubrick as one of the greatest film makers of all time and knew he could write, but had no idea he was a photographer as well as a film maker (guess we'll soon have to come up w/ another word for film when discussing movies). I should have guessed, because when you look at his films, it is quickly apparent that someone sure knew what they were doing w/ the images.

This morning I was watching an old Alfred Hitchcock Presents on the telly, and it featured this fetching actress named Betsy von Furstenberg, a gal that deserves her own movie when you read about her life. She died just this year at 83. Something about her, especially in the first shot in the first link below, reminds me of someone I knew in Hawaii named Esther, who was/is another movie-to-be-made sort of woman (and Esther, wherever you are, pffffft). I would share a photo of her, but the wife made me throw them all away.

Here's some shots taken by Kubrick, and a lot were made when he worked for Look magazine. Betsy is featured in many of these. What a feline like beauty. The second link is to her obituary in the Times.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wor...oTCM3GjsPVy8gCFUOpHgodVxMC-g&biw=1280&bih=895

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/a...ss-and-versatile-actress-dies-at-83.html?_r=0
 
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Kubrick collected and loved using exotic lenses in his films. Shooting wide open with f/0.x glass in Barry Lyndon for example.
Watch any of his films and you'll see them in use resulting in one-of-a-kind shots. Amazing stuff.

Couple years back was lucky to catch a retrospective at the LA County museum, where many of these lenses and cameras were on display.

Google image search "Kubrick retrospective LACMA": http://bit.ly/1QJlTfN

LACMA page: http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/stanley-kubrick

Edit: it was a Zeiss Planar f/0.7 lens adapted to a Mitchell BNC (Blimped Noiseless Camera) used in Barry Lyndon.
 
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Stanley Kubrick is on the Large Format Forum.
 
A couple of years ago I went over to Presentation House in North Vancouver where they had a show featuring Weegee and his interaction with Stanley Kubrick. Weegee was on site and at Kubrick's request shot stills.

It appears that Kubrick and Weegee were acquainted for a long time.

There is even some evidence that Peter Sellers used Weegee as inspiration for the Dr. Strangelove accent.
 
Richard S. (rich815) said:
Check out Wim Wenders too:

Wim Wenders: Written in the West, Revisited http://www.amazon.com/Wim-Wenders-Written-West-Revisited/dp/1938922840
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Kubrick's use of exotic lenses and cameras for his movies is legendary. I'm especially intrigued by the scenes in "Barry Lyndon" that were lit entirely by candle light and shot using the aforementioned Zeiss f/.7 lens. He also often had a Polaroid 110B with him during filming. A terrific camera that is relatively easily converted for use as a portable 4x5.

Wenders' image "Lounge Painting 1" from Written in the West has been an inspirational image for me - http://www.istantidigitali.com/wp-c...ng-1-Gila-Bend-Arizona-1983-©-Wim-Wenders.jpg
 

Very nice shot. For some reason on Tapatalk and my iPhone on APUG the link is not working, I think it's something to do with the copyright symbol in the URL.

So for those who have issues like I did I make an "alias" link that should work:

http://tinyurl.com/wimwendersgilaaz
 
I saw Wenders' landscape photographs at the 'Kunstpalast' Düsseldorf / GER - really impressive work !
Worth mentioning : Wenders works solely with film; no flashlights, no tripod.
 
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