Looking for Jean Vigo

Back in Nice for a Week End, I made again one of my favorite photo walks: following the path of Jean Vigo's masterpiece "A propos de Nice " (1930) to shoot some of the places in the movie: the old city, castle hill, castle hill cemetery and finishing on the famous "Promenade des Anglais". You can have a look at this beautiful short movie here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Ti_8c6qjI Jean Vigo was strongly inspired by Dziga Vertov's masterpiece "Man with a movie camera" (1929) (www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Ti_8c6qjI). One thing about the link between these 2 movies: Jean Vigo's cameraman, Boris Kaufman, was the brother of Dziga Vertov's cameraman/actor, Mikhail Kaufman... Enjoy the movies and the pictures! :)

Photographer:
vicuna
Uploaded:
2015-04-20
Tags:
a propos de nice black and white bw castle hill harbor home processed jean vigo old city port view
Camera:
Lomo LC-A 120 (available in our shop)
Film:
Kodak T-Max 400
City:
Nice
Country/region:
France
Albums:
Looking for Jean Vigo [LCA 120]

5 Comments

  1. wil6ka
    wil6ka ·

    so dramatic!

  2. lonur
    lonur ·

    great album! i'm going to have to come back to check out jean vigo's film.

  3. vicuna
    vicuna ·

    thanks @wil6ka and @lonur :) yes ramiro, if you didn't saw this movie already, take 20 mn of your time to have a look at it, it's great and inspiring

  4. lonur
    lonur ·

    i've just seen it, and it really is great! loved the cinematographic language.

  5. vicuna
    vicuna ·

    @lonur cool you saw it and liked it! :)

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