A single-issue limited edition, autographed print of Space Station Lighting Test by on-set photographer Keith Hamshere, from the production of Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey.

This issue is limited to just three prints. This is the first, autographed by Keith Hamshere and dated "April 2, 2018", marking the 50th anniversary of 2001's initial theatrical release. Number two is retained by the photographer, and number three is with restoration coordinator Piers Bizony.

Scanned at high resolution and remastered from the still held by The Stanley Kubrick Archive for the Taschen book The Making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, this was printed with the permission and approval of Warner Bros. Entertainment and the Kubrick family. Profits raised from the auction of this print will be donated to The Jane Goodall Institute. Dimensions: 82.5 cm x 64 cm (32 1/2" x 25 1/4")

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£500 - 700 M




Towards the end of the four-year production period of Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, the renowned aerospace artist Robert McCall was brought in to study scenes and props from the film for the purpose of creating poster art for the advertising campaigns. The Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London (UAL) holds the original large-format film sheets that were the basis for 2001’s famous publicity posters. They reveal the McCall artworks in stunning detail, right down to the brush strokes. This reference material was painstakingly worked on, over a period of six months, to produce these one-of-a-kind, limited-edition giclée prints. These prints are now the only reference comparable with the original paintings housed at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C.The purchaser of each McCall print is guaranteed to possess a unique item.

Large-format still photographs of the sets and spacecraft models were also created as part of the elaborate lighting tests, which director Stanley Kubrick required for filming. The Stanley Kubrick Archive preserves many of the original film plates in environmentally controlled storage, but in preparation for the Taschen book The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, selected materials, as taken in 1966 by unit photographer Keith Hamshere, were scanned at high resolution, and two of these images have been remastered and autographed by the artist. Painstaking digital cleaning removed dust specks and scratches, making the images appear just as they did when first captured more than half a century ago.

With special permission from Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., a certificate of authenticity, witnessed by a member of the Stanley Kubrick family and image restoration coordinator Piers Bizony, accompanies each print.

No further large-format prints, as derived from the original film sheets at The Stanley Kubrick Archive, will be offered for sale or purchase, either now or in the future.

Profits raised from the auction of these prints will be donated to The Jane Goodall Institute, and to its globally significant work helping to protect endangered chimpanzee populations in Tanzania and the Congo. 2001: A Space Odyssey opens with a depiction of our ape-like ancestors four million years ago. While Stanley Kubrick was preparing those famous scenes, one of his key advisors was the renowned anthropologist Louis Leakey, who helped send Goodall to Tanzania in 1960 to study chimpanzees. Goodall then spent the rest of her life devoted to this work, and to the protection of these endangered cousins of humanity. Please help a worthy cause by bidding on these very special mementos of 2001: A Space Odyssey.