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 Photo of Ienache Manakia, 1917. | |
| Born |
May 18, 1878 Avdella, Ottoman Empire (today northern Greece) |
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| Died |
May 19, 1954 (aged 76) Thessaloniki, Greece |
 Milton Manakia in a scene from the movie Camera 300. | |
| Born |
May 18, 1878 Avdella, Ottoman Empire (today northern Greece) |
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| Died |
May 19, 1954 (aged 76) Bitola, Yugoslavia |
The brothers Ianachia (Ion, Ianakis, 1878–1954) and Milton Manachia (Miltiade, 1882–1964) were pioneering photographers and the early filmmakers in the Balkans.
- Photography
They began to work together in 1898. Ienache opened an photographic studio in Epir, where he worked as a teacher of drawing and calligraphy. Milton had to leave Ianina in 1905 after the scandal of Vouvousa and they moved to Bitola (Monastir) in Macedonia where they opened the famous Studio of Art and Photography. The studio used the label in two language, Romanian and Turkish, the official language of the Ottoman Empire.
The Manakis brothers became the official photographers of the Romanian Court Royal in 1906, of the Ottoman in 1911 and of king Aleksandar Karadjordevic in 1929.
In total, they took over 17,300 photographs in 120 localities.
- Film
The Weavers [Viaţa casnică la aromâncele din Pind] (c1905) is a silent, black and white documentary film the Manakis brothers made in the small Aromanian village of Avdella, in the Ottoman vilayet of Monastir. It depicts the Manaki's aunts and 114-year-old grandmother Despina spinning and weaving. It is said to be the first film shot in the Ottoman Balkans. The film is shot with 35 mm film with an Urban Bioscope movie camera (serial number 300) imported from London. The movie itself is not a big achievement (just a family scene) but it opened the road to ethographic movie. (Rudolf Pöch's ethnographic films from New Guinea were made in 1904.)
- Awards
- 1906, 2 gold medals and 1 silver medal at the International Exposition in Bucharest
- Legacy
In honor of their work, the International Cinematographers' Film Festival "Manaki Brothers" is held every year in Bitola, the city where most of their activities were organized.
- See also
- Literature
- Marian Ţuţui, Orient Express: filmul românesc şi filmul balcanic sau Cinematograful balcanic, Bucharest: Editura Noi Media Print, 2008. (in Romanian)
- External links
