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The following picture is of Mikhail Kaufman who was Vertov's brother and cameraman.  This is a still from the film Man With a Movie Camera.  Numerous shots like this one are seen within the film in order to further enforce Vertov's main arguments that the camera is better that human eye.

 

Scanned image from the following book source:

Vertov, Dziga.  Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov.  Edited by Annette Michelson and Translated by Kevin O'Brien.  (London and Sydney: Pluto Press, 1984).  Page, 68.

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