[Commodities traders on the floor of Chicago's Merchandise Mart] / Stanley Kubrick. – Vintage Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures [Commodities traders on the floor of Chicago's Merchandise Mart] / Stanley Kubrick. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Commodities traders on the floor of Chicago's Merchandise Mart] / Stanley Kubrick.
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Commodities traders gather on the floor of the Merchandise Mart in this frame, a view of Chicago's trading life taken by Stanley Kubrick. He was then a young staff photographer for *Look* magazine, and he made the picture for an assignment on Chicago as a "city of contrasts." It is frame 21 on a contact sheet, the small proof sheet photographers used to choose negatives for printing, and the magazine's library logged it in January 1949. The Merchandise Mart, a wholesale center completed in 1930, was a building of enormous scale, and the crowded floor shows how much business moved through it.
| Medium | 1 photographic print (contact sheet frame) |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1949 Jan. 27 (date added to Look's library) |
| Subjects | Image from Look photograph assignment: Chicago -- city of contrasts. Frame 21 of a contact sheet. LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Title devised by Library staff. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,332 × 5,355 px · prints to 14 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-213886 |
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