The first 20 photographs in the book include shots of Jack and Gert, Kubrick's parents, and a number of photos of him from the age of three months through to his early teenage years. It is evident from pictures of his mother, that Stanley Kubrick inherited her eyes.

Christiane includes more that just photographs in this marvelous book. For example, Kubrick's high school yearbook picture is present, annotated with additional notes about his activities with the school band and newspaper. While in high school, Kubrick sold a photograph to Look magazine, and became their youngest ever staff photographer. The table of contents from the May 11, 1948, v12 n10, issue of Look features a photo and bio of Kubrick, with the line, "In his spare time, Stanley experiments with cinematography and dreams of the day when he can make documentary films."

Also featured is a handful of contact sheets of some of Kubrick's photos, the subjects of which included actor Montgomery Clift, jazz musicians Pee Wee Russell, Errol Garner, and others, and boxer Rocky Graziano.

Following this, we begin the series of photos that follow Kubrick from his first film, Day of the Fight in 1950, through to his final work, Eyes Wide Shut, in 1999. In addition to some wonderful family shots are many photographs that take us truly behind the scenes of all his films. One of my favorite shots features Kubrick and George C Scott, cigarettes in hand, both concentrating intensely over a game of chess on the set of Dr Strangelove. Still another is one of his daughter, Vivian, her little arm around her father, cheek to cheek, their faces lit from the display of a small Movieola viewing screen as they watch the scene to be edited.

Christiane ends the book with a complete, exhaustive cast and credit list for all of SK's movies, including credits which were not given on screen. She notes: "This appendix, it is hoped, will serve as a definitive source."

I finished the book, and wanted to look at it again and again; there is so much to study and absorb in this amazing selection of photographs and artwork. I would look at a picture, and wonder what it was like to be there at that moment. Christiane Kubrick has done something wonderful for the fans and afficionados of her late husband by compiling this book, and as such, we are in her debt.