Dracula's Cinematographer : Through the Eyes of Karl Freund

Karl Freund, cinematographer for Dracula, Metropolis, Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Mummy.

Filmed in the German Expressionist style that he used for Metropolis, Freund's camera captures dramatic compositions of light and shadow to create a romanticized world of gothic horror.

Freund was also the cinematographer for I Love Lucy.

Dracula's brides gearing up for a mood swing at the castle (Dracula, 1931).

Publicity photo for Dracula with Helen Chandler and Bela Lugosi (1931)

Der Fotograf | Willy Ruge

Arno Boettcher photographed by Willy Ruge, 1927

Ruge, a photojournalist who specialized in images of aircraft, took this photograph in 1931 during a seven-minute parachute jump from an airplane over Berlin. Although his friends tried to dissuade him, Ruge risked his life to produce this vertiginous view, which was published in the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung.

Source: Willi Ruge: Der Fotograf [The Photographer] (2005.100.300) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jan Zrzavý | ývazrZ naJ

Jan Zrzavý | Czech Avant-Garde

San Marco at Night (1931)

Cleopatra (1942-1957)

Veles (1929)

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