The one that’s missing (Kubrick)

From Artnet:

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.

That’s an odd, truncated version of Kubrick’s career, omitting The Killing , Lolita , Paths of Glory , Full Metal Jacket , and Eyes Wide Shut. But the movie that’s most glaringly absent, if the focus is on Kubrick’s black-and-white photographs from New York City subways, is the brilliant, noirish, low-budget effort Killer’s Kiss (1955). It’s so good, and like every other Kubrick movie, it’s unlike any other Kubrick movie. And it begins and ends in Penn Station.

From the Museum of the City of New York
“Riding the Subway with Stanley Kubrick” : “Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs” : “From Photography to Film Noir: Stanley Kubrick’s Early Career”