"AK Painting" photo
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1 February 2013
1 February 2013
Nice find.
With Google image search, I found http://kinoimages.wordpress.com/tag/painting/ . Unfortunately, the site does not provide more helpful information on the copyright owner. Google also finds this site: http://www.dvdclassik.com/personnalite/akira-kurosawa/galerie You may be able to get more information from the site’s owner: http://www.dvdclassik.com/article/nous-contacter
Please let us know if you manage to obtain more information.
2 February 2013
Unfortunately, I don’t really have any answer for you, Po. While this picture is quite common online, I can’t find it in any of the published Kurosawa books that I have. Fred’s suggestion to contact dvdclassik may be your best bet.
It probably doesn’t help at all but the Akira Kurosawa Digital Archive includes a black and white picture as item 24.02.52, which was also taken during the painting of the Dodesukaden sets. While they don’t seem to have the photographer listed, I assume that they know who owns the rights to it. It could be the same photographer.
Guys, hello, perhaps you’ve seen this picture of AK and know who the author is:
(AK painting the sunset for the “Dodes’ka-den”)
We hope to contact him/her (or them, in case the rights belong to an agency) to ask for permission to publish the photo with a magazine article. Googling and tineye.com have not been very helpful so far, I’ll very appreciate any help. Thanks!