Stanley Kubrick's archive in a new book

TASCHEN, the well-known German publishing house famous for its art books that make the collectors go crazy, recently added to its Bibliotheca Universalis catalogue The Stanley Kubrick Archives, an expansive legacy that explores and pays homage to the director's career.

First published in 2005, the book puts together and collects a series of spectacular archival material: set designs and notes from the shootings, his mailing, original screenplays and even shooting schedules, as well as a rare selection of the director's interviews and old articles dedicated to him and his movies. All the material is compiled in chronological order, starting with the opening sequence of Killer's Kiss and ending with the last frames of Eyes Wide Shut. TASCHEN described the book as “a visual, archival and scholarly journey through masterworks of 20th-century cinema and the meticulous mind of the director behind them.”

Stanley Kubrick's cinema is legendary. From Lolita's heart-shaped sunglasses (1962) to Jack Nicholson's killer madness in Shining (1980), stopping by the immortal shots as seen in 2001: A Space Odissey, his movies are now part of the cultural heritage of the entire world: you don't even need to watch them to know that they are true masterpieces in the history of cinema. This book is just the latest to be added in TASCHEN's Bibliotheca Universalis collection, a publication that every year re-prints the house's most appreciated and loved books and re-publishes them in a new version, more affordable ($25 USD) and with a thick cover. The catalogue already comprehends books dedicated to all-time great artists as Leonardo Da Vinci and Gustav Klimt, still focusing very much on the fashion world (it is remarkable the volume of Logo Design. Global Brands) and cinema.