Mikhail Kaufman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mikhail Kaufman

Russian cinematographer and photographer

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1897

Place of Birth: Białystok, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 11-Mar-1980

Profession: photographer, cinematographer, film director, director

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Mikhail Kaufman

  • Mikhail Abramovich Kaufman (Russian: ?????´? ????´????? ??´?????; 1897 – March 11, 1980) was a Russian cinematographer and photographer.
  • He was the younger brother of filmmaker Dziga Vertov (Denis Kaufman) and the older brother of cinematographer Boris Kaufman.He was born into a family of Jewish intellectuals living in Bialystok in Grodno Governorate, at the time when the Bialystok region was a part of the Russian Empire.
  • In the 1920s, after Mikhail Kaufman returned from the Russian Civil War, Vertov offered him the opportunity to participate in his newsreel series Kino-Pravda as a cameraman.
  • Mikhail Kaufman directed photography for several films, including Vertov's Man with the Movie Camera (1929).
  • 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.
  • His brother's wife, Yelizaveta Svilova, was editor and part of the "Council of Three" who "proclaimed a 'death sentence' on the cinema that came before, faulting it for mixing in 'foreign matter' from theater and literature.Mikhail Kaufman directed two films: Moscow (1927) and In Spring (1929).
  • Shortly after the filming of Man with the Movie Camera, Kaufman and Vertov fell out over artistic differences.
  • The two would never work together again. Kaufman died in Moscow.

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