Usually, when you hear a story about a teenager secretly photographing strangers on the subway with a camera hidden under his coat, it ends with someone getting hauled off by transit cops.
But in this case, the teenager happened to be Stanley Kubrick — and the pictures he furtively snapped during late-night rides through the New York City subway system in 1946 have just surfaced for the first time in 80 years, 18 vintage prints that had been buried in a four-million-photograph archive recently acquired by Los Angeles gallery owner Daniel Miller.
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“I was poking through the archive, and I found this little envelope hidden away that just had the word ‘Subways’ scrawled on it,” Miller recalls. “I opened it and thought, ‘This is really interesting stuff.’”
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