Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/18

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Subject: [Leica] Kubrick/Leica
From: Gary Elshaw <gary.elshaw@vuw.ac.nz>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:35:13 +1300

Yup. Stanley's first occupation was as a photographer when he was a 
teenager. I'm pretty sure he was still in his late teens when he was 
working for LOOK.

All the best,
Gary


At 1:28 PM -0800 18/11/99, Steve wrote:
>
>Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:44:43 -0400
>From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
>Subject: [Leica] Stanley Kubrick
>
>  Fellow LUGGERS,
>
>I just received a gift to day from a friend, the Leica Manual, by Willard
>Morgan, 12th edition 1953. It is over 400 pages of incredible Leica stuff
>that is still applicable to todays generation of Leicas. I wish there was a
>book available today that is as comprehensive as this book. It has chapters
>written by Ansel Adams, Arthur Rothstein, Alfred Eisenstaedt and Peter
>Stackpole writes a chapter on underwater photography with a Leica. Plus many
>photgraphs by the greats, but, one picture credit puzzels me; a street photo
>by LOOK photographer STANLEY KUBRICK, Leica LTM with a 50mm Summar, f/2.8 @
>1/8. I am wondering if this is the Oscar winning director (Clock Work
>Orange, 2001, etc, etc)? Did Kubrick work for Look before going on to his
>marvelous film career? Anybody know?
>Steve
>Annapolis

"The difficulty now is that unexceptional adults believe the loss of 
youthful dreaming is itself "growing up," as though adulthood were 
the passive conclusion to a doomed activity and hope during 
adolescence."


OO             The Uses of Disorder
[_]<|          Personal Identity and City Life -- Richard Sennett
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Gary Elshaw
Post-Grad Film Student
Victoria University
New Zealand
http://elshaw.tripod.com/