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See the New York City subway through the eyes of Stanley Kubrick in 1946

See the New York City subway through the eyes of Stanley Kubrick in 1946

Stanley Kubrick

Before The Killing, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, or even The Shining, Stanley Kubrick was a young artist with a passion for images. While he hadn’t made some of the greatest films of all-time yet, it seems like the director had a keen eye for people and places around him.

Dangerous Minds posted a series of photographs on Thursday that were taken by the future director during the summer of 1946 in the New York City subway for LOOK magazine, a competitor to LIFE. According to the site, Kubrick was just 16 years old, thus would begin a relationship with the magazine that would last several years, until he began making movies in earnest around the age of 23, in the early 1950s.

The photographs feature a self portrait of the filmmaker followed by shots of the people moving through the subway and interacting with each other including a couple standing intimately with a man laying on the ground behind them and passengers sleeping on the cars.