and Nathan Abrams
Kubrick consumes us. Like no other filmmaker, he exerts a hypnotic hold from beyond the grave. Fans trade making-of trivia about his landmark films and lives-of-the-saints tidbits about his habits. There’s no escaping the labyrinth of Kubrickana once you enter: hundreds of books, a touring exhibition, a $2,500 Taschen volume just on The Shining, and even—quick, go look—Kubrick’s eldest daughter answering questions on Reddit about her father’s fur-trim parka.
Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams apparently couldn’t get enough, either, and their Kubrick: An Odyssey is the latest compendium about this son of a Bronx doctor who fatefully got a camera for his 13th birthday (chosen over a Bar Mitzvah). Fate speaks clearly: the teenage wunderkind soon became a professional photographer, publishing in Look magazine, snapping 1940s New York dramas (sometimes staged) and everyone from Sinatra to Leonard Bernstein, to Eisenhower, to Rocky Graziano.
