Dziga Vertov - Man with a Movie Camera

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. ) Documentary Film, by Paul Rotha, Faber and Faber, 1936, plate opposite p91.(Photo by Bridgeman via Getty Images)