Oscar-winning cinematography by the great Australian DoP Robert Krasker, BSC, born on this day, 21 August, in 1913. Never heard of him?. This is a good place to start reading about his life and career: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com

The great Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC on page 126 in ‘The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Australian Showbiz’, by Margot Atterton & Alan Veitch, Sunshine Books, Brookvale, 1984: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/r...

Looking for the great Oscar-winning Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC, at Moore Park during the AFTRS Open Day, 8 August 2026: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/l...

Exploring Robert Krasker, BSC’s old familiar places in Sydney’s George Street Photography District, from his time there during the mid-to-late 1920s while based in the Strand Arcade at his family's French fashion & luxuries boutique: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/e...

Robert Krasker, BSC was educated in Parisian Modernism before his family returned from Europe to an Australia still immersed in 19th Century Belle Epoque Pictorialism: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/r...

Exploring and photographing the Sydney streets and buildings now located where Robert Krasker, BSC walked when he was a teenager in the late 1920s: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/e...

Did acclaimed Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker’s widowed mother Mathilde fund her children’s educations in Paris with shares in or full ownership of three pearling vessels in Western Australia?: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/d...

Robert Krasker, BSC and Joseph Roth’s ‘The Wandering Jews’ , quoted by Falk Schwarz in his book ‘Farbige Schatten – Der Kameramann Robert Krasker’, 2012: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/r...

Robert Krasker’s mother Mathilde was born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine when it was Austro-Hungarian Czernowitz. Did its multi-ethnic cosmopolitanism help shape Krasker into one of the greatest 20th Century cinematographers?: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/r...

Was Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC trained in the Weimar Republic under its unique ‘die Filmemacher’ model of close creative partnership between director, cinematographer and crew members?: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/06/05/w...

What were Germany’s film studios like when the great Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker was studying cinematography, optics and photography there in 1930?: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/w...

What, who and where influenced Robert Krasker to take up photography? ‘Cazneaux: The Quiet Observer’ at Art Gallery of NSW library, with article by Australian film industry activist Phillip Adams: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/w...

Small holdings of celebrated, once-famous Australian photography and visual culture magazine ‘not only Black+White’ at Art Gallery of New South Wales library in May, 2025 – Had I known about Krasker then, he would have been a major subject in it: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/s...

What paintings, sculpture and movies might Robert Krasker, BSC have seen and been influenced by when studying in Germany in 1930?: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/w...

A Software-Generated Movie Contact Sheet of ‘The Third Man’ (1949), Director of Photography: Robert Krasker BSC, Directed by Carol Reed: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/a...

Acclaimed Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC in The Third Man: Viennese Whispers, Charles Drazin: On This and That, 16 May 2026: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/r...

Robert Krasker, BSC, not in 'Independent': Director's Cut: Every shadow tells a story: Michael Winner on the eccentricity, boldness and Hitchcockian surprises of 'The Third Man', by Michael Winner – Updated: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/i...

Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC in Film at Lincoln Center’s ‘Film Comment’, TCM Diary: Robert Krasker, Master of Light, by Bruce Bennett, January to February 2020 – Updated: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/f...

Australian Director of Photography Robert Krasker, BSC: Rowntrees Aero television commercial and 'The Criminal' feature film in 'Conversations with Losey', by Michel Ciment, 1985 robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/r...

Robert Krasker, BSC was Director of Photography and Camera Operator for two of the most famous TV commercials in the history of British advertising, Cinzano’s ‘Airliner’ and ‘Ski Lodge’, directed by Hugh Hudson of 'Chariots of Fire': robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/r...

‘The Times’ writes about Director Hugh Hudson and ‘Gertcha’, legendary monochrome Courage Best Bitter television commercial photographed by Australian DoP Robert Krasker, BSC in 1979, age 66 – Updated with Fact Checks: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/t...

The past is always with us, and so is the influence of the great Australian feature film Director of Photography Robert Krasker BSC, his life, his life’s work and his many remarkable achievements, …: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/t...

Film historian and video essayist Mark Cousins has released the first parts of his ‘The Story Of Documentary Film’ and we hope it will appear here in Australia soon: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/f...

Video clips and articles about life and work at the Denham studios of London Film Productions where the great Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker, BSC worked in the late 1930s: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/v...

British Film Historian Charles Drazin, Author of Upcoming ‘The Faber Book of British Cinema’, Describes ‘The Third Man’, cinematography by the great Australian Director of Photography Robert Krasker, BSC, as “The Film of All Films”: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/b...

Robert Krasker, BSC advertised his Zeiss Ikon Kinamo S10 16mm movie camera for sale in ‘Amateur Photographer & Cinematographer’, 6 January 1937 – Is this the camera he used to learn cinematography in Dresden in 1930?: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/r...

Did the young Robert Krasker spend time at the Art Gallery of New South Wales when he was living here in the late 1920s? Undoubtedly!: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/d...

Did acclaimed Australian DoP Robert Krasker’s Oscar-winning cinematography for Carol Reed’s ‘The Third Man’ influence the look of the ‘Star Wars’ movies? – Madeline Ostdick of 'The Spread' thinks so: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/d...

Was this the location of acclaimed Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker’s family’s French luxury goods store in the Strand Arcade, Sydney, during the late 1920s?: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/w...

The Robert Krasker Project documentary: shenmintao’s V-Log Alchemy project enables Fujifilm colour in Panasonic cameras including the Lumix GH7: robertkraskerproject.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/s...