Dziga Vertov /Vertof, pseudonym of David Abelevich Kaufman, directed the film Man with the Movie Camera (1929) where his brother Mikhail Kaufman poses with a camera taking a self-portrait. This is a still from the film. DV was newsreel director, cinema theorist and Soviet pioneer of documentary film: 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954. Mikhail Abramovich Kaufman, Russian cinematographer and photographer 1897 – March 11, 1980 . (Shortly after the filming of Man with the Movie Camera, Kaufman and Vertov fell out with each other over artistic differences. )

Dziga Vertov /Vertof, pseudonym of David Abelevich Kaufman,   directed the film  Man with the Movie Camera (1929) where his brother Mikhail Kaufman poses with a camera taking a self-portrait. This is a still from the film. DV was newsreel director, cinema theorist and Soviet pioneer of documentary film:  2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954.   Mikhail Abramovich Kaufman, Russian cinematographer and photographer  1897 – March 11, 1980  . (Shortly after the filming of Man with the Movie Camera, Kaufman and Vertov fell out with each other over artistic differences. ) Stock Photo
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Lebrecht Music & Arts / Alamy Stock Photo

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3525 x 2700 px | 29.8 x 22.9 cm | 11.8 x 9 inches | 300dpi

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2 May 2017

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