If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,<br>There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats: Artists in Action #273

October 17, 2007

Artists in Action #273

Montgomery Clift gets medicated
(photo by Stanley Kubrick)

6 comments so far:

Vanwall said...: Jesus, that's creepy.; October 17, 2007 11:38 AM
Jeremy Richey said...: Such an incredible shot and I just recently found out that Kubrick was the photographer...; October 17, 2007 11:45 AM
mernitman said...: Looks like just another day in my little office...; October 17, 2007 12:38 PM
Testify said...: Am I the only one who thinks this is pantomime? The eyes seem a little too clear,the hand a little too elegant? Thanx for all the Monty pics though!; October 17, 2007 7:49 PM
Tom Sutpen said...: Am I the only one who thinks this is pantomime? The eyes seem a little too clear,the hand a little too elegant?

Entirely possible. It was part of an article for one of the big photo weeklies of the time, Look magazine, and in that realm (especially when covering a celebrity) a degree of staging was not unknown. Could be that Kubrick asked him how he spent an evening at home and, considering Clift's sense of humor (always self-deprecating), he snapped into that pose instinctively.; October 17, 2007 8:45 PM
Vanwall said...: Ah. Many an evening have I spent in just such repose. I thought it was amazing Clift did too - shoulda known it was just a career-boosting photo op.; October 17, 2007 11:54 PM

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