Looking Back

 

 

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The more things change, the more things stay the same.

As a staff photographer in 1946 for LOOK Magazine, Stanley Kubrick set out to capture New York City subway commuters. The image above is titled ‘Man Sleeping on a Subway’.  The image below, ‘Musicians With Their Instruments on a Subway’. Both of these images are from LOOK Magazine, ‘Life and Love on the New York City Subway’, Stanley Kubrick, c.1946, when Kubrick was just 18 years of age.

Image via mcny.org c.1946