Daniil Demutsky (Camera)

Daniil Demutsky was a legendary Ukrainian photographer and an experimental cameraman who filmed Two Days (1927), Arsenal (1929) and Earth (1930). He was born in Cherkasy region in a family of a doctor, Nikolay Lysenko’s student and collector of the Ukrainian folk music. From his childhood, he was fond of music and dreamt of a conductor career. Fascinated by photography, he joined Kyiv society of amateur photographers Dagger. He entered the Faculty of Medicine of Saint Vladimir University (now Taras Shevchenko National University), but after visiting a mortuary for the first time he decided to become a lawyer. In 1913, Daniil Demutsky participated in the All-Ukrainian exhibition of photo artists with four landscapes shot by a meniscus lens. After graduation, he was engaged not in legal, but in photography practice. He presented his works at Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Moscow and Saint-Petersburg exhibitions. He worked as a photographer for journals Vestnik Fotografii and Solntse...Read More