Beauty Is in the Eye of Kubrick

Before he was a film director, Stanley Kubrick worked as a photojournalist.  In the summer of 1949, he shot pictures for a story called "Chicago City of Contrasts" for Look magazine.  Below are some of my favorites from the Chicago collection; you can see them all here.  

The Museum of the City of New York and VandM.com have also teamed up to showcase and sell some of his best work as a photographer.  The images are phenomenal--take a look here.

It's easy to see his photography roots in these cinemagraphs from his movies, too (Blogspot won't let me embed GIFs).  They're awesome.