Jacques Bolsey
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Jacques Bolsey was born in Ukraine and had emigrated to Switzerland. His original name was Bogopolsky. He designed a first 35mm camera, called the Cinégraphe Bol, then the Bolec 16mm movie camera in 1927, that was produced as the Bolex after the rights were sold to Paillard. Later he designed the Bolca Reflex 35mm SLR in 1938, that would be produced as the Alpa after the rights were sold to the Swiss company Pignons.
He moved to the United States at the beginning of World War II and founded the new Bolsey company in 1947 to produce small 35mm fixed lens rangefinders. The company disappeared at the beginning of the 1960s, and Jacques Bolsey died in 1962.
Bibliography
- Sanford, Richard. Bolsey, the man behind the camera. Home publication, 2003. (No ISBN number.)
Links
In English:
- Jacques Bolsey project (a website whose goal is to make a documentary about Jacques Bolsey)
- The history of Bolsey and his cameras at alpareflex.com
In Italian:
