Karl Struss
Karl Fischer Struss ( born November 30, 1886 New York, † December 16, 1981, Santa Monica, CA ) was an American photographer and cameraman and in the early days of film, with others, a key role in the development using the film camera was playing.
Struss was awarded the Oscar for the first cameraman.
Life
Karl Fischer Struss was the youngest of six children of Henry W. Struss and his wife Marie. Some sources claim he did not finish high school because of an illness. Other sources he graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City. From 1903, Struss worked for ten years in the factory of his father. During this time he visited in photography at Columbia University Teacher 's College (since 1908) evening classes. Overall Struss studied for four years of photography, before he settled in Los Angeles, and from 1914 to 1919 ran his own photo studio.
In 1919 he was engaged Cecil B. DeMille. Relatively quickly Struss along with Charles Rosher one of the leading cinematographers of the fledgling film industry. Rosher and Struss often worked together and shared in 1929 the first Oscar for Best Cinematography at all, for their work on FW Murnau's Sunrise - A Song of Two People ( Sunrise).
Many innovations Struss ' are wrongly attributed to other people, such as the use of infrared filters in the transformation scene in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Rouben Mamoulian ( 1931).
Struss made from some of the best cinematographers of the 1950s, including George Clemens, who later took over the camera for the TV series The Twilight Zone. By 1959, Struss often stood for the director Kurt Neumann behind the camera. His penultimate film was The Fly (1958). Here he used the now famous " Looking through the fly's eye ." Between 1960 and 1970 turned exclusively Struss commercials for television.
Karl Fischer Struss died on December 16, 1981 in Santa Monica, California. There are always exhibitions that show the photographs of Karl Struss.
Filmography (selection)
These Struss also worked for numerous episodes of the television series Broken Arrow. Overall Struss stood for nearly 140 films behind the camera.