Igor Anatolievich Chernykh (June 12, 1932 – July 15, 2020) was a Soviet
cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece. The cinematographer is the chief of the camera ...
. He was honored with
Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. He was best known for his works in ''
The Diamond Arm'', ''
Particularly Important Task'' and ''
Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation''.
Biography
Igor Chernykh was born on June 12, 1932 in
Moscow
Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...
. Finished his secondary education at Gymnasium No. 1 in
Zhukovsky in 1950. Entered the cinematography department of the university of
VGIK
The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, officially the S. A. Gerasimov All-Russian University of Cinematography (, meaning
''All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov''), a.k.a. VGIK, is a film school in Moscow, ...
(workshop of A. V. Galperin). After graduation in 1955 started his career in
Mosfilm
Mosfilm (, ''Mosfil’m'' , initialism and portmanteau of Moscow Films) is a film studio in Moscow which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Founded in 1924 in the USSR as a production unit of that nation's fi ...
as a director of photography.
He shot his first film in 1955. Overall, he has worked on more than 20 films in his career. He collaborated with such important for Soviet cinema directors as
Leonid Gaidai
Leonid Iovich Gaidai (30 January 192319 November 1993) was a Soviet comedy film director, screenwriter and actor who enjoyed immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former Soviet Union. His films broke theatre attendance records a ...
,
Alexei Saltykov,
Yuri Ozerov and
Yevgeny Matveev.
In his work he applied innovations, invented new things. For example, he is considered to be one of the creators of the first
steadicam
Steadicam is a brand of camera stabilizer mounts for motion picture cameras invented by Garrett Brown and introduced in 1975 by Cinema Products Corporation. The Steadicam brand was acquired by Tiffen in 2000. It was designed to isolate the ...
in the Soviet Union. In 1977, he independently developed a stabilisation system Gorizont, which was used to shoot some episodes of the films ''
Emelyan Pugachev'', ''Particularly Important Task'' and
''The Battle for Moscow''. The device was used by other operators for another two decades.
He was noted to be one of the first to accomplish underwater photography.
Chernykh died on July 15, 2020, in
Moscow
Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...
, aged 88.
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References
External links ЧЕРНЫХ ИГОРЬ АНАТОЛЬЕВИЧ
1932 births
2020 deaths
Soviet cinematographers
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
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