Vladislav Mikosha
Vladislav Vladislavovich Mikosha (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.;[1] 8 December 1909 - 10 December 2004) was a Soviet photographer and film director.
Life
Vladislav Mikosha was born on 8 December 1909 in Saratov, a city situated along the Volga River.[2] His father was a sailor, and during his youth he wished to enter the same occupation, but health concerns precluded his attending Leningrad's naval school.[3] In the late 1920s, Mikosha obtained an Akeley Camera, a kind of camera invented by the naturalist Carl Akeley in 1917. Mikosha claimed that he was in possession of this type of camera earlier than any other Soviet documentary filmmaker.[4] Between 1929 and 1934, he studied at the State Institute of Cinematography.[5] He was hired by the Soyuzkino Chronicle, and later fired after quarrelling with its director. From 1936 to 1939, he worked as a photographer for various newspapers and magazines: Izvestia, Pravda, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Ogoniok, and Sovetskoe Foto.[2]
During World War II, Mikosha served on the front lines as a cameraman,[6] with his work being published in Pravda, the USSR's principal newspaper at the time.[7] In 1949, Mikosha was part of a film crew who, on the orders of Joseph Stalin, travelled to China for the purpose of producing a documentary.[8] Between the 1950s and the 1970s, he focused on making documentaries about historical, revolutionary topics and contemporary issues.[9] Mikosha died in 2004.[10]
Notes
- ↑ For Mikosha's full name, see Kozlov, s.v. Микоша В. В..
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bendavid-Val, p. 215.
- ↑ MAMM 2021, para. 2.
- ↑ Cavendish, pp. 10, 14.
- ↑ Kozlov, s.v. Микоша В. В. (end date); MAMM 2021, para. 3 (start date).
- ↑ Gorbatsky, s.v. МИКОША, Владислав Владиславович.
- ↑ MAMM 2021, para. 5.
- ↑ MAMM 2021, para. 6.
- ↑ Kozlov, s.v. Микоша В. В..
- ↑ Gorbatsky, s.v. МИКОША, Владислав Владиславович; MAMM 2015, para. 1.
References
- Bendavid-Val, Leah, Propaganda & Dreams: Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US, Zurich and New York, Edition Stemmle, 1999. ISBN 3908161800 Search this book on
.. Internet Archive. - Cavendish, Phil, "The Delirious Vision: The Vogue for the Hand-held Camera in Soviet Cinema of the 1920s", in Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 5–24, 2013. doi:10.1386/srsc.7.1.5_1. ISSN 1750-3132.
- Gorbatsky, Vadim I. (ed.), Документальное кино XX века. Кинооператоры от А до Я, Moscow, Materik, 2005. ISBN 585646138X Search this book on ..
- Kozlov, M. M. (ed.) Великая Отечественная война: 1941—1945, Moscow, Soviet Encyclopedia, 1985. Online version.
- Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Vladislav Mikosha: The Time Machine. Color. 1930–1970, "For the Press", curated by Jemma Firsova-Mikosha, Cheboksary, 2012/2015. MAMM.
- Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Vladislav Mikosha: The Victory of the Chinese People through the Lens of a Soviet Photographer, "For the Press", Moscow, 2021. MAMM.
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