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Oskar Barnack (Nuthe-Urstromtal, Brandenburg, 1 November 1879 – Bad Nauheim, Hesse, 16 January 1936) was a German inventor and photographer who built, in 1913, what would later become the first commercially successful 35mm still-camera, subsequently called Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke (the Leitz factory) in Wetzlar.
The Leica Oskar Barnack Award, presented almost continuously since 1979, recognizes photography expressing the relationship between man and the environment.It was known as the Oskar Barnack Award when presented by World Press Photo between 1979 and 1992, and has been known as the Leica Oskar Barnack Award while presented by Leica Camera since 1995.
Martin Kollár (born 23 November 1971) is a Slovak photographer and cinematographer. He was awarded the Leica Oskar Barnack Award in 2014. [1] Kollár has had solo exhibitions at the Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris; Le Château d'eau, Toulouse; Reiss Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim; Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava; Benaki Museum, Athens; and Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne.
Watriss has received awards from The World Press Foundation (The Netherlands), Oskar Barnack Award, Missouri School of Journalism 'Pictures of the Year', The XI International Interpress Photo and The Women's International Democratic Federation (Germany). [1] In 2013 Watriss received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Houston Fine Arts Fair ...
The Leica Standard, Model E was the fourth version of the original 35 mm Leica camera to be launched from Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Germany.The concept was conceived by their employee Oskar Barnack in 1913 at which time two prototypes were built.
Several of the Asian brands combined the viewfinder and rangefinder features, this was not done on the Barnack Leica cameras or Soviet copies. After World War II, the Allied countries made all German patents in their country available to the public free of charge. Ernst Leitz had no patents registered in the USSR. Cameras introduced later would ...
2017 – Winner Of Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2017 – Berlin, Germany [23] [4] [6] 2020 – Nomination on Foam Paul Huf Award – Amsterdam, Netherlands [3] 2022 – Becoming a part of Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung foundation collection – Münich, Germany [3] 2022 – FUTURES talent, nominated by ISSP (Riga, Latvia) – Amsterdam ...
The mount was developed by Oskar Barnack at Leica to provide a system that would allow for the exchange of lenses on their new small film cameras (Leica Type 1 and Leica Type 2), as Zeiss Ikon had indicated that their forthcoming Contax rangefinder cameras would have interchangeable lenses. The LTM system was tested at the request of Leitz on ...