Check Out Stanley Kubrick's Photographs of Chicago from the Summer of 1949

Well, this is just awesome. Long before becoming one of the most influential directors of all time, Stanley Kubrick was a photojournalist. As the Chicago Tribune notes, "In the summer of 1949, Look magazine sent him to Chicago to shoot pictures for a story called 'Chicago City of Contrasts.'" Click ahead to see the recently unearthed photos taken by the then-21-year-old Kubrick.

Here is my favorite. Click through to see more of Kubrick's early photographic work.

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