The PAN|Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, from 13th July to 23th September, presents amazing photographic works by Stanley Kubrick who, at 17, was hired by Look Magazine, one of the most important magazines in USA, to show everyday life of the postwar period in America through some stories of contradictory figures as Montgomery Clift and Rocky Graziano. Thanks to Kubrick's photography, we can also observe the contradictory framings representing New York, which was becoming a world Capital, and Columbia University's middle class.
This expositive project, sponsored by the Municipality of Naples, supported by the municipal Department of Culture and Tourism and producted by GAmm Giunti in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and, for the first time, with MuséesRoyaux Des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, searchs Kubrick's photographic style which reveals a premature human soulfulness also found in his movies.
The exhibition is also an occasion to know Kubrick's root: if hadn't directed "Fear and Desire" (1953), his first feature(film), Stanley would have become a photographer.
In exposition at the PAN there will be 168 photographs - realized by the director between 1945 and 1950 - print from original negatives held in the Look Magazine Collection of the Museum of New York. This photographic heritage was unknown until some years ago: the only trace was a photograph of a newsvendor despairing for Roosevelt's death on 26th June 1945. This photo charmed so much Look Magazine that hired the seventeen-year-old Stanley as photographer.
