It's New(ish) To Us: Stanley Kubrick's Chicago

By Karl Klockars in Arts & Entertainment on Mar 10, 2011 7:00PM

\"People arriving at a Chicago theater for show starring, in person, Jack Carson, Marion Hutton, and Robert Alda\"

View from street level of the \"L\" elevated railway in Chicago, Illinois

Unidentified man standing in front of a \"Trade\" board on which he records a \"Market Score\" at the Merchandise Mart

Steel worker in mill as molten steel spills from vat, in Chicago, Illinois

Racks of meat in cold storage in a meat locker

Overhead view of the \"L\" elevated railway in Chicago, Illinois

Young girl seated at desk in classroom in Chicago, Illinois

Commodities traders on the floor of Chicago\'s Merchandise Mart

Not long before he was a film director, Stanley Kubrick was a gun for hire, a have-camera-will-travel, roving photojournalist working for the likes of LOOK Magazine in the late 1940's. We stumbled across some of his shots while wandering through Tumblr recently, and while the Tribune ran a gallery a while ago, we thought some of the other photos were worth passing on as well.

Note: Distinct lack of droogs, insane 'Nam-era grunts, black-as-night atomic bomb humor, megalomaniacal computers in spacecraft, haunted hotels, Spartacus, and so on. Just plain ol' (if you can call it that) mid-century Chicago.

All images via the Library of Congress. More images available at the link.