Suschitzky, Wolfgang (1912- ) - 1965 San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy

Wolfgang Suschitzky, BSC (born 29 August 1912), is a photographer and cinematographer perhaps best known for his collaboration with Paul Rotha in the 1940s and his work on Mike Hodges' 1971 film Get Carter. He was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
Andrew Pulver has described Suschtizky as "a living link to the prewar glory days of the British documentary movement."[4] Steve Chibnall writes that Suschitzky "[developed] a reputation as an expert location photographer with a documentarist's ability to extract atmosphere from naturalistic settings."[5] His photographs have been exhibited at the National Gallery, the Austrian Cultural Forum in London and The Photographer's Gallery, and appear in many international photography collections. He is the father of cinematographer Peter Suschitzky (born 1940) and classical musician and writer Misha Donat.[3] He turned 100 in August 2012.

Suschitzky's father was a Viennese social democrat of Jewish background, but had renounced his faith and become an atheist, or "konfessionslos". He opened the first social democratic bookshop in Vienna (later to become a publishers), and Suschitzky was born in the apartment above the bookshop. His sister was photographer Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–1973). Suschitzky said of his father "he was a great man. I realised that later on in life, not so much when I saw him every day. But, I met interesting people, some of his authors who came and had lunch with us or met people who came to his shop."[7] In an interview at the age of 95 in September 2007, Suschitzky recalled boyhood memories of the excitement that greeted the Russian Revolution in 1917.

Suschitzky's first love was zoology, but he realised he could not make a living in Austria in this discipline, so instead, influenced by his sister, he studied photography.[10] Around this time, the political climate in Austria changed from a Socialist Democracy to Austrofascism. Being a Socialist and of Jewish origin, Suschitzky decided there was no future for him in Austria and in 1934 left for London, where his sister lived. While in London, Suschitzky's father committed suicide. Suschitzky married a Dutch woman in Hampstead and they moved to the Netherlands. His wife left him after a year, which Suschitzky said "was great luck because had I stayed there, I wouldn’t be alive anymore, I'm sure."[11] He returned to England in 1935.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Suschitzky

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