Mikhail Abramovich Kaufman (1897–1979; Russian: Михаил Абрамович Кауфман) was a Russian cinematographer and photographer. He was the older brother of notable filmmakers Dziga Vertov (Denis Kaufman) and Boris Kaufman.
He was born into a family of Jewish intellectuals living in Białystok at the time when the Congress Poland was a part of the Russian Empire.
In 1920s, after Mikhail Kaufman returned from Russian Civil War, Vertov offered him to parti...
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Mikhail Abramovich Kaufman (1897–1979; Russian: Михаил Абрамович Кауфман) was a Russian cinematographer and photographer. He was the older brother of notable filmmakers Dziga Vertov (Denis Kaufman) and Boris Kaufman.
He was born into a family of Jewish intellectuals living in Białystok at the time when the Congress Poland was a part of the Russian Empire.
In 1920s, after Mikhail Kaufman returned from Russian Civil War, Vertov offered him to participate in his newsreel series Kino-Pravda as a cameraman.
Mikhail Kaufman directed photography for 1929 film Man with the Movie Camera. The film is built around meta-reference and is full of innovative visual effects: in it, Kaufman acts as a cameraman and is seen shooting the film while walking on high bridges, hanging off the side of a train, climbing a smokestack and crawling underground with miners – all in order to get the best shot.
Shortly after the filming of Man with the Movie Camera, Kaufman and Vertov fell out over artistic...
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