Tag Archives: Photography

MIKHAIL KAUFMAN: portraits

Posted on 04/05/2022 by Opinionated Designer

Dziga Vertov’s experimental film ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ (VUFKU 1929) portrays a day in the life of an unnamed Soviet city in 1928. Filming the activities of its inhabitants at work and play the cinematographer (and Vertov’s brother) Mikhail … Continue reading →

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Rodchenko’s Birthday

Posted on 05/12/2021 by Opinionated Designer

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 →

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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the film locations

Posted on 29/06/2020 by Opinionated Designer

1929 poster for the film by the Stenberg brothers Dziga Vertov’s 1929 experimental masterpiece ‘Man with a Movie Camera’ [Человек с кино аппаратом, Chelovek s kino apparatom (R), Людина з кіноапаратом, Lyudyna z kinoaparatom (U)], along with Eisenstein’s ‘Battleship Potemkin’, … Continue reading →

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MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: the film locations

Posted on 29/06/2020 by Opinionated Designer

1929 poster for the film by the Stenberg brothers ‘We leave the film studio for life, for that whirlpool of colliding visible phenomena, where everything is real, where people, tramways, motorcycles, and trains meet and part, where each bus follows … Continue reading →

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Dismal Designs – Nikon D5

Posted on 30/10/2016 by Opinionated Designer

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 →

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Delightful Designs – 1946 SIRIO Elettra II camera

Posted on 10/10/2016 by Opinionated Designer

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 →

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Miniature Masterpieces – Leica APDOO, WINKO, WINTU and AUFSU

Posted on 01/02/2015 by Opinionated Designer

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 →

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