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Recent Posts
- MIKHAIL KAUFMAN: portraits 04/05/2022
- VUFKU 100 13/03/2022
- Rodchenko’s Birthday 05/12/2021
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: trainspotting! 11/12/2020
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: reflections 24/11/2020
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the first cinema screening 24/09/2020
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the film locations 29/06/2020
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the film locations 29/06/2020
- Adriano Olivetti 27/02/2020
- Why is Computer Design stuck in the 1950s? 04/04/2018
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the movie cameras 26/02/2018
- The movie cameras in Man with a Movie Camera 26/02/2018
- Apple Park 24/07/2017
- Archispeak #1 – TEA, Tenerife 11/01/2017
- Dismal Designs – Nikon D5 30/10/2016
- Delightful Designs – 1946 SIRIO Elettra II camera 10/10/2016
- Japanese Style 22/07/2016
- Whistler’s Haircut 27/04/2016
- Beyond The Dreaming Spires 11/04/2016
- Leica 1 Model C – The First System Camera 29/02/2016
- Blot on the Historic Townscape 21/02/2016
- Dismal Designs – The Hearing Aid 09/01/2016
- A Factory Filled with Light – Olivetti at Pozzuoli 13/11/2015
- Great Designers Remembered – Pier Giorgio Perotto and the first PC 28/10/2015
- Dismal Designs – New Google Logo 15/09/2015
- Miniature Masterpiece – Leica FIKUS Variable Lens Hood 03/09/2015
- Disappointing Designs – Apple Watch 18/08/2015
- Memorable Images – Henry Taunt 19/07/2015
- Duane Hanson at the Serpentine 16/07/2015
- Blots on the Cityscape – The Ruin of London? 15/07/2015
- Disappointing Designs – Alfa Romeo Giulia 07/07/2015
- Golden Silver – The Beauty of Nickel Plate 02/07/2015
- Delightful Designs – Arteluce Bean Bag Light 15/06/2015
- Housing Design Crisis 12/06/2015
- Blot on the Landscape – Close-board Fencing 10/06/2015
- Delightful Designs – Alessi Birdsong Tea Strainer 08/06/2015
- Miniature Masterpieces – Leica RASAL and ROSOL Frame Finders 31/05/2015
- Hiroshige at the Ashmolean 01/02/2015
- Blot on the Townscape #2 – The Blade, Reading 01/02/2015
- Miniature Masterpieces – Leica APDOO, WINKO, WINTU and AUFSU 01/02/2015
- Dismal Designs – Premier Inn 01/02/2015
- Blot on the Historic Landscape – The Port Meadow Scandal 09/01/2015
- Peter Overs – Emu Dreaming 08/01/2015
- Dismal Designs – new Mini 04/01/2015
- Miniature Masterpieces – Leica VISOR, VIDOM and VIOOH viewfinders 03/01/2015
- Alessi Makes Serious Coffee 29/12/2014
- Blot on the Townscape #1 – Oxford 29/12/2014
- Great Designers Remembered – George C Blickensderfer and the First Portable Typewriter 29/12/2014
- Constructivism in Tenerife! 19/12/2014
- Dismal Designs – Fiat Fiorino 19/12/2014
Category Archives: Cameras
Rodchenko’s Birthday
С Днем Рождения Александр Михайлович! Rodchenko in his Productivist work suit, folded parts of the Spatial Construction sculptures in the background, c1924. Photograph by Mikhail Kaufman. Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodchenko was born in St Petersburg on the 5th December 1891 (New … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cameras, Constructivism, Design, Graphic Design, Leica, Photography, product design, Uncategorized
Tagged Constructivism, Photography, Soviet Union
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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: trainspotting!
‘Long live the poetry of the propelling and propelled machine, the poetry of levers, wheels, and steel wings1, the iron screech of movements, the dazzling grimaces of red-hot jets.’ From: ‘We. A Version of a Manifesto’, Dziga Vertov, Kino-Fot no. … Continue reading
Posted in Camera, Cameras, Cinema, Constructivism, Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera, silent film, Soviet film, Steam locomotives, Uncategorized
Tagged agit train, Debrie Parvo camera, Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, Man with a Movie Camera, Mikhail Kaufman, Soviet locomotives, Steam trains in Russia, Trains in Man with a Movie Camera
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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: reflections
Studying ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ carefully, shot by shot, for two previous posts on the locations and cameras, I was struck by the repetition of reflected and reversed images throughout the film from the first dramatic view of the … Continue reading
Posted in Camera, Cameras, Cinema, Constructivism, Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera, silent film, Soviet film, Uncategorized
Tagged Cine-Eye, Debrie Parvo, Dziga Vertov, кино-глаз, Elizaveta Svilova, Flopped Shot, Kinamo, Kino-Eye, Kino-Glaz, Krauss Zeiss Tessar lens, Left-Right Reversal, Man with a Movie Camera, Mikhail Kaufman, Mirror reversal, Reflected shots
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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the first cinema screening
In the spring of 1927 Dziga Vertov* moved to Kyiv to work for VUFKU, the All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Adminstration (Vse-Ukrains’ke Foto Kino Upravlinnia, ВУФКУ – Всеукраїнське фоtокіноуправління) after being sacked by Sovkino, the Russian equivalent, for being over budget on … Continue reading
Posted in Camera, Cameras, Cinema, Constructivism, Design, Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera, Photography, silent film, Soviet film, Uncategorized
Tagged Berlin, Der Mann mit der Kamera, Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, Express Cinema, Film und Foto Exhibition, Goskino No. 1 Cinema, Goskino No. 2 Cinema, Hermitage Cinema, K. Liebnecht Cinema, Kharkiv, Kharkiv Historical Museum, Kyiv, Man with a Movie Camera, Marmorhaus Cinema, Mikhail Kaufman, Moscow, Museum of Moscow, Odesa, Oleksandr Dovzhenko Centre, Palace Hotel, Shantser Cinema, Tverskaia 46 Cinema, VUFKU
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The movie cameras in Man with a Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov’s 1929 masterpiece ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ is a staple of film studies courses and has been analysed and written about countless times. What has had no attention, surprisingly, is the actual equipment used on and in the … Continue reading
Posted in Cameras, Cinema, Photography, silent film, Uncategorized
Tagged Abel Gance, Alexander Rodchenko, cine camera, Debrie, Debrie Grande Vitesse, Debrie GV, Debrie Le Parvo, Debrie Sept, Debrie tripod, Dziga Vertov, Eduard Tisse, Elizaveta Svilova, Emile Labrely, Ica Kinamo, Kino Eye, Kino Glaz, Kinok, Le Parvo, Man with a Movie Camera, Mikhail Kaufman, Sergei Eisenstein, silent film, Silent film camera, Stenberg brothers, Varvara Stepanova, Zeiss Ikon Kinamo
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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the movie cameras
1929 poster for the film by the Stenberg brothers Dziga Vertov’s 1929 masterpiece ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ is a staple of film studies courses and has been analysed and written about countless times. What has had no attention, surprisingly, … Continue reading
Posted in Cameras, Cinema, Photography, silent film, Uncategorized
Tagged Abel Gance, Alexander Rodchenko, cine camera, Debrie, Debrie Grande Vitesse, Debrie GV, Debrie Le Parvo, Debrie Sept, Debrie tripod, Dziga Vertov, Eduard Tisse, Elizaveta Svilova, Emile Labrely, Ica Kinamo, Kino Eye, Kino Glaz, Kinok, Le Parvo, Man with a Movie Camera, Mikhail Kaufman, Sergei Eisenstein, silent film, Silent film camera, Stenberg brothers, Varvara Stepanova, Zeiss Ikon Kinamo
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Dismal Designs – Nikon D5
In complete contrast to my previous post……. The grotesque looking D5 is the epitome of everything I loathe about the current offering of DSLR cameras. It is the Mr Creosote* of cameras, a misshapen lump with buttons, lids, and switches scattered at … Continue reading
Posted in Camera, Cameras, Design, Japanese Design, Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged Cameras, Canon EOS, Design, DSLR, Japanese cameras, Japanese DSLR, Nikon D5, Photography, Product design
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Delightful Designs – 1946 SIRIO Elettra II camera
As well as being a Leica fan I’m also intrigued by the many ‘Look-a-Leicas’ that mostly appeared in the decade after WW2. The launch of the first Leica in 1925 caused a sensation, changing the way people took photographs. Tens … Continue reading
Posted in Camera, Cameras, Design, Italian Design, Leica, Photography, product design, Uncategorized
Tagged Cameras, Copy Leicas, Design, FED cameras, Italian cameras, Leica cameras, Leica copies, Photography, Product design, SIRIO Elettra II
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Miniature Masterpiece – Leica FIKUS Variable Lens Hood
A series of posts celebrating the early Leica camera accessory, ingenious and often beautiful small masterpieces of functional design. Ernst Leitz produced the first ‘system’ camera in 1930 (the Leica 1 Model C), and by 1933 the accessory catalogue ran to over 100 pages. These … Continue reading
Posted in 1930s photography, Cameras
Tagged Leica Fikus, Leica lens hood, lens hoods
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Miniature Masterpieces – Leica RASAL and ROSOL Frame Finders
A series of posts celebrating the early Leica camera accessory, ingenious and often beautiful small masterpieces of functional design. Ernst Leitz produced the first ‘system’ camera in 1930 (the Leica 1 Model C), and by 1933 the accessory catalogue ran to over 100 pages. These … Continue reading
Posted in Cameras, Photography
Tagged 1930s, aerial photography, Hindenburg, Leica RAMET, Leica RASAL, Leica RASUK, Leica ROSOL, Leica viewfinders, Paul Wolff, sports photography
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