The Robert Krasker Project

I have added more movie contact sheets of films photographed by Robert Krasker, BSC to The Robert Krasker Project and there are more to come:

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Then there are the intersex kids, and adding them to that 3% makes 5%.

Sotheby’s auction catalogue containing Robert Krasker’s collection of over 400 photographs, 10 to 11 July 1986, at 34-35 New Bond Street, London W1, bought by the British Film Institute (BFI) — 400+ and not 200+ photographs:

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Under Construction at The Robert Krasker Project: Article header movie contact sheets for Robert Krasker films in my small but growing collection:

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A better way to make movie contact sheets?: ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ (1948), cinematography in studio by Robert Krasker, BSC — Using the MoviePrint freeware application for macOS:

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‘Great Expectations’ (1946): The river escape sequence photographed by Australian Director of Photography Robert Krasker, BSC, on location in Kent and in the studio in Denham — The river escape sequence is also considered a feat of cinematography:

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‘Great Expectations’ (1946): The famous opening sequence photographed by Australian Director of Photography Robert Krasker, BSC, on location and in the studio — Krasker tested colour filters and pan glasses for weeks before principal photography:

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Robert Krasker, BSC in ‘David Lean: A Biography of the Director of Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, and Lawrence of Arabia’, by Kevin Brownlow, 1997 — Updated:

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Robert Krasker, BSC in transcript of audio recording for the British Entertainment History Project interview with Nigel (Bob) Huke on 12 August 1994 — Huke shares real reason why Krasker was asked to leave 'Great Expectations' halfway through:

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They are interphobic as well. Why are intersex people always erased?

The Puppetmaster has total control.

Notable writers about Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC: Professor Duncan Petrie in ‘The British Cinematographer’, 1996 — Updated:

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Robert Krasker, BSC in ‘Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Ronald Neame, An Autobiography’, by Ronald Neame, 2003 – 'Great Expectations' Producer Neame shares why he asked Krasker to hand over to Guy Green:

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Robert Krasker, BSC in ‘Historical Dictionary of British Cinema’, by Alan Burton and Steve Chibnall, 2013; new edition coming out 19 February 2026 — 2025 update of article first published in 2023:

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Robert Krasker, BSC in ‘British Cinematographer’ magazine: In conversation with BSC lifetime achievement award recipient Phil Méheux BSC — “… Bob Krasker BSC … , all those giants of cinematography”:

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Robert Krasker, BSC in Cliomuse.com, Where history and movies meet: ‘El Cid’ (1961) Director: Anthony Mann — How close is 'El Cid' to El Cid? This may help.:

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Robert Krasker, BSC & ‘Senso’, Luchino Visconti and the Italian film industry unions in ‘Farbige Schatten – Der Kameramann Robert Krasker’, by Dr Falk Schwarz, 2012 — Did Krasker quarrel with Visconti or did the Italian film unions demand he go?:

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The Robert Krasker Project causes a ruckus at Pinewood Studios: Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC’s Oscar for his brilliant work on ‘The Third Man’ is back in the hands of the British Society of Cinematography (BSC):

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What I am watching right now: ‘Mr. Scorsese’, five-part documentary miniseries by Rebecca Miller about film director and film preservationist Martin Scorsese:

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One of the movie cameras used to film Leni Riefenstahl’s ‘Olympia’ (1938) was created by the brilliant Professor Emanuel Goldberg of Zeiss Ikon in Dresden – was Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker taught by Goldberg in Dresden, 1930?:

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Robert Krasker, BSC and Bill Brandt in ‘Bill Brandt Behind the Camera: Photographs 1928–1983’ — Art historian David A. Mellor asks if Krasker and Brandt influenced each other — Updated:

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Hi Jo,

Hope you don't mind me messaging you this way as DM is not possible. Do you have a larger version of photograph you posted from the Pinewood Studios Future Festival holding Robert Krasker's Oscar? Enquiries to Pinewood drawing blanks so far. This Oscar is crucial in telling Krasker's story.

Robert Krasker, BSC’s Oscar statuette for Best Cinematography in Black-and-White on ‘The Third Man’ from 1951 Academy Awards is located somewhere at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom:

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#filmsky

So many of them. It's the in-thing to do these days over there.

Robert Krasker, BSC in behind-the-scenes photograph from ‘Brief Encounter’, large enough to positively identify him:

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Robert Krasker, BSC in rare colour photograph of him behind the scenes for ‘El Cid’ on location in Spain:

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Robert Krasker, BSC reportedly mounted a Technicolor camera on a Hollywood film truck to photograph the famous horse charge in ‘Henry V’. What did that camera rig look like?:

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Robert Krasker, BSC in ‘Filmguide to Henry V’, by Harry M. Geduld, 1973 — Krasker “did daring, magnificent new things with color”:

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Robert Krasker, BSC in ‘The Best Film I Never Made: And Other Stories About A Life In The Arts’, by Bruce Beresford, 2017 — Krasker “is unquestionably one of the greatest lighting camera-persons” aka cinematographers:

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Robert Krasker, BSC (not) in ‘Film Makers on Film Making: Statements on Their Art by Thirty Directors’, Harry M. Geduld, 1 January 1967 — Director Carl Dreyer gives top rating to two colour films photographed by Krasker — Updated

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