but evaluating each move carefully. Critic Anthony Lane described him as, "the Bobby Fischer of cinema, the hermit wonk who used his players like pawns and trapped his harried audiences in check" (Phillip and Hill 198). Put another way, "Kubrick's films negotiate the line between the commercially viable and the formally disruptive" (Pipolo 4). Beyond chess, his life was dominated by photography.
             Kubrick's started his path to cinematic greatness as a photographer for his high school's newspaper. Stanley sold his first picture to LOOK Magazine at age 16. After graduating, he became a fulltime employee, making his first cover two years later in August of 1945. These years were very formative for the young filmmaker. Kubrick even stated that, "If I hadn't been a photographer, I would have lacked the one essential ingredient you have to have to put on anything on film" (Huntington 9). In fact, it was an assignment he received while working at LOOK that led him to the subject of his first film, Walter Cartier an up and coming boxer. With Day of the Fight, made in 1951, Kubrick stepped into the world of film. From here Kubrick worked his way up the ladder, from finishing two more short documentaries (The Flying Padre in 1951 and The Seafarers in 1952), to his first feature, Fear and Desire, finished in 1953. It was his second film, Killer's Kiss in 1955, which brought Kubrick to the attention of the aspiring producer James Harris. The two teamed up to form Harris-Kubrick Productions. Their first picture, The Killing (1956), helped Kubrick establish himself in Hollywood, but failed to be considered a critical or financial success. It was in 1957, with the film Paths of Glory, that Kubrick's cinematic genius was first truly displayed. The star of the film, Kirk Douglas, gave Stanley his next movie, Spartacus. After completing Spartacus, Kubrick was a hit. The mainstream success given to Kubrick by the movie, finally allowed him to co...