
People arriving at a Chicago theater for show starring, in person, Jack Carson, Marion Hutton, and Robert Alda. Photo by Stanley Kubrick.
IN 1949, Stanley Kubrick who would later, of course, become one of the great movie directors, was working for Look magazine.
* The photos were accompanied by an essay by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Irv Kupcinet that dealt with social and economic contrasts that, in Kup’s view, defined the city at the time.
Kubrick’s photos included school children, a butcher in a meat locker, a family enjoying a meal the opulent Pump Room, a family living in the African-American slums on the South Side, showgirls and men working in the steel mills.
Many of the photos shown here weren’t published by the magazine at the time, but remain in the archives of the Library of Congress.
We’ve previously showcased some of his work here.

View from above of automobile and pedestrians on street below the “L” elevated railway in Chicago, Illinois

Lingerie model, wearing a girdle and strapless bra, smoking in an office; in the background a woman sits at a desk