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Researching the late, great Oscar-winning Australian feature film cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC at robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com Ⓥ

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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC in ‘British Cinematographer’, July to August 2023, issue 118, page 16, BSC Heritage Series, Robert Krasker, BSC, ‘Angling for Success’ — Updated, first published 22 May 2024: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/f...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC in ‘The Sunday Herald’, 12 November 1950, ‘Australia’s Ace Photo-Man Gets U.S. Critics’ Vote’ – Updated, first published 23 March 2024: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/f...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC and Mathilde Krasker’s £1000+ legacy from husband Leon stolen first day out from Brisbane on trip to Paris for children’s education early 1923 — Updated, first published 3 April 2024: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/m...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC in Quiet Cut: The Geometry of Anguish: Robert Krasker’s Noir and the Ghost of Gregg Toland in ‘Odd Man Out’, 27 March 2026: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/r...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC & his teachers: Professor Emanuel Goldberg, General Manager of Zeiss Ikon, Honorary Professor in the Scientific Photography Institute of the Technical University Dresden until 1933: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/09/r...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC & his teachers: Professor Robert Luther, Founding Director of the Scientific Photography Institute of the Technical University Dresden, Co-founder of the German Photo Dealer School in Dresden: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/10/r...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC in ‘He lights the way for stars’ in ‘The Australian Women’s Weekly’, 16 August 1950, by London-based Australian correspondent Bill Strutton – Updated, first published 15 August 2025: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/09/t...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nearby retail locations when Robert & George Krasker were running Geo. Krasker at the Strand Arcade: The Dymocks Building – Updated, first published 15 July 2025: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/11/t...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC in ‘International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers’, one of the more detailed entries about Robert Krasker found so far, but is it entirely accurate? — Updated, first published 10 February 2024: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/06/t...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC in ‘Insight: Anthony Asquith’ (1960) released on the BFI’s DVD of ‘A Cottage on Dartmoor’ (1930) directed by Anthony Asquith: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/r...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC, in ‘Shadowing the Third Man’ (2005), a documentary by Frederick Baker bundled with some releases of DVD & Blu-ray disks of ‘The Third Man’ (1949) – Updated, first published 2 June 2023: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/s...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC in ‘The West Australian’, 17 January 1953, ‘Noteworthy Films Made In U.K.’: Western Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker worked on six of them — Updated, first published 7 June 2024: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/04/r...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC in Top 10 Films: Top 10 British films of the 1940s & Top 10 British Films, topped by, you guessed it, ‘The Third Man’ — Updated, first published 29 September 2023: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/t...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Robert Krasker Project: Recent views statistics show interest in the great Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC from readers in China, Hong Kong, Mexico, Singapore and the USA far outnumbers those from Australia, his homeland: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/t...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC in ‘TIME’ magazine review of ‘Odd Man Out’ by James Agee in ‘Cinema: New Picture, Mar. 3, 1947’: “Robert Krasker … is one of the best cameramen alive”: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2024/05/30/t...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC in ‘Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’: Krasker, Robert (1913-1981), by Duncan Petrie – Updated with Fact Checks and more, first published 2023: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/o...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC and Anthony Asquith's ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ that was to star Dirk Bogarde in ‘An Autobiography of British Cinema: By the Actors and Filmmakers who made it’, by Brian McFarlane, 1997: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/23/r...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Director Lav Diaz photographed ‘Magellan’ (2025) with a Panasonic Lumix GH7 & Leica Vario-Summilux 10-25mm f/1.7 lens in 5.8K Open Gate: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/d...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC, in ‘American Cinematographer’, Dean Semler, ASC, ACS in ASC Close-Up, June 2011 – "Q. What cinematographers ... do you most admire? A. Robert Krasker, BSC, for 'The Third Man'.": robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/20/r...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC studied in Germany in 1930. Hit TV series ‘Babylon Berlin’ depicts Germany from 1929 through to 1933: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/r...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Kodak Portrait Diffusion Disk left its fingerprints on ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and many classic Hollywood black-and-white and Technicolor films up until the filter’s decline in the 1970s: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/t...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC in ‘American Cinematographer’: ASC Closeup: Rodney Charters, 3 July 2020: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/r...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Short movie ‘Red’, photographed by Robert Krasker, BSC, for actor/director Astrid Frank, supported ‘Omen II’ in at least two screenings in the United Kingdom in 1979: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/s...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've been researching the NiSi JetMag Pro diffusion filter range for use in The Robert Krasker Project documentary. Here is where to find the most useful descriptions of each filter: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/i...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A documentary video starter kit for telling the epic & inspiring story of ‘The Third Man’ Oscar-winning Australian feature film cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC, sadly forgotten in his homeland: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/a...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
‘The Matrix’ (1999): Is this the fire escape sequence shot at rear of Georges Building, 387 George Street, Sydney in the heart of The George Street Photo District known to young Robert Krasker from 1926 through to 1929?: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/t...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What did the young Robert Krasker do after the Geo. Krasker store in the Strand Arcade closed its doors? He worked in the New Zealand Government Offices in Sydney in 1928: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/08/26/w...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Seeing Sydney’s George Street Photo District through Sunlit Pictorialist eyes, as Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC might have done when he came here in the mid-1920s: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/08/25/s...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Some history of Sydney’s George Street Photo District, The Georges Building, 387 George Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia — Robert Krasker BSC was living, working and studying in Sydney from 1926 to 1929: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/08/24/s...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC in Ernest R. Dickerson on ‘The Third Man’ and Its influential Cinematography at TCMFF 2022: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/08/23/r...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
On this day, 21 August, the acclaimed Oscar-winning Australian cinematographer (for 'The Third Man') Robert Krasker, BSC was born, in the year 1913: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/o...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The great Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC on page 126 in ‘The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Australian Showbiz’, by Margot Atterton & Alan Veitch, Sunshine Books, Brookvale, 1984: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/r...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
On this day, 16 August, Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC passed away, in the year 1981. He was the first Australian to win an Oscar for cinematography, in 1951, for his brilliant work on 'The Third Man': robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/o...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Looking for the great Oscar-winning Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC, at Moore Park during the AFTRS Open Day, 8 August 2026: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/l...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Exploring Robert Krasker, BSC’s old familiar places in Sydney’s George Street Photography District, from his time there during the mid-to-late 1920s while based in the Strand Arcade at his family's French fashion & luxuries boutique: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/e...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC was educated in Parisian Modernism before his family returned from Europe to an Australia still immersed in 19th Century Belle Epoque Pictorialism: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/r...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Exploring and photographing the Sydney streets and buildings now located where Robert Krasker, BSC walked when he was a teenager in the late 1920s: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/e...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Did acclaimed Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker’s widowed mother Mathilde fund her children’s educations in Paris with shares in or full ownership of three pearling vessels in Western Australia?: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/d...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC and Joseph Roth’s ‘The Wandering Jews’ , quoted by Falk Schwarz in his book ‘Farbige Schatten – Der Kameramann Robert Krasker’, 2012: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/r...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Robert Krasker’s mother Mathilde was born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine when it was Austro-Hungarian Czernowitz. Did its multi-ethnic cosmopolitanism help shape Krasker into one of the greatest 20th Century cinematographers?: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/r...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Was Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC trained in the Weimar Republic under its unique ‘die Filmemacher’ model of close creative partnership between director, cinematographer and crew members?: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/06/05/w...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
What were Germany’s film studios like when the great Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker was studying cinematography, optics and photography there in 1930?: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/w...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
What, who and where influenced Robert Krasker to take up photography? ‘Cazneaux: The Quiet Observer’ at Art Gallery of NSW library, with article by Australian film industry activist Phillip Adams: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/w...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Small holdings of celebrated, once-famous Australian photography and visual culture magazine ‘not only Black+White’ at Art Gallery of New South Wales library in May, 2025 – Had I known about Krasker then, he would have been a major subject in it: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/s...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
What paintings, sculpture and movies might Robert Krasker, BSC have seen and been influenced by when studying in Germany in 1930?: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/w...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A Software-Generated Movie Contact Sheet of ‘The Third Man’ (1949), Director of Photography: Robert Krasker BSC, Directed by Carol Reed: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/a...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Acclaimed Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC in The Third Man: Viennese Whispers, Charles Drazin: On This and That, 16 May 2026: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/r...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Robert Krasker, BSC, not in 'Independent': Director's Cut: Every shadow tells a story: Michael Winner on the eccentricity, boldness and Hitchcockian surprises of 'The Third Man', by Michael Winner – Updated: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/i...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC in Film at Lincoln Center’s ‘Film Comment’, TCM Diary: Robert Krasker, Master of Light, by Bruce Bennett, January to February 2020 – Updated: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/f...
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The Robert Krasker Project @karingottschalk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Australian Director of Photography Robert Krasker, BSC: Rowntrees Aero television commercial and 'The Criminal' feature film in 'Conversations with Losey', by Michel Ciment, 1985 robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/r...
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