Stanley Kubrick: early life

By Isabelle smith

 Stanley Kubrick was a award winning producer, director, writer and photographer of films. His films which were most known and critically acclaimed films included  Path of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, Space Odyssey. A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket.

Early life:

On the 6th of July 1928 Stanley Kubrick was born at the Lying in hospital in Manhattan. As a child he had a fairly normal upbringing, his parents were Jewish and his Father was a doctor. Kubrick was deemed intelligent as a boy but he he wasn't doing particularly well at school. When he was 13, Stanley's father bought him a  Graflex camera, which triggered a life long fascination with photography and film.

His Father became very concerned with his sons falling grades and eventually decided to send Stanley away in 1940 to live with his uncle who lived in Chicago. Stanley's father hoped the hoped that the change of scene would help motivate his son and hopefully improve his grades. When he graduated in 1945 Stanley found it very difficult to get into a good University as he had poor grades and many of them would not accept him. He didn't get admission into any good Universitys  and so he began attending evening classes at the City College of New York in 1946. 

Stanley s passion for photography grew when he was in his late teens, he began taking many trips to New York to take lots of photographs which he would then take back home and develop in his friend’s darkroom.

When Kubrick was just 17 years old he  managed to get himself a job as a staff photographer at “Look” magazine and spent the next few years travelling throughout the United States working on photographic assignments he'd been given by the company.