Suschitzky was born in Vienna , Austria-Hungary . His father was a Viennese social democrat of Jewish background , but had renounced his faith and become an atheist , or " konfessionslos " . He opened the first social democratic bookshop in Vienna ( later to become a publisher ) , and Suschitzky was born in the apartment above the bookshop . His sister was photographer Edith Tudor-Hart ( 1908 – 1973 ) . Suschitzky said of his father " he was a great man . I realised that later on in life , not so much when I saw him every day . But , I met interesting people , some of his authors who came and had lunch with us or met people who came to his shop . " In an interview at the age of 95 in September 2007 , Suschitzky recalled boyhood memories of the excitement that greeted the Russian Revolution in 1917 . As he was brought up with no faith , he remembered the envy of his friends that he was allowed to miss religious classes and sit outside reading a book and described himself as " a very naughty boy . We played all sorts of tricks with … my chums in the park , every afternoon . " He was often in trouble at home and at school . On the advice of the counsellor for education of Vienna , his father sent him to a day boarding school to learn some discipline . However he continued to be mischievous and was often detained at school . Suschitzky 's first love was zoology , but he realised he could not make a living in Austria in this discipline , so instead , influenced by his sister , he studied photography . At this time , the political climate in Austria was changing from a Socialist Democracy to Austrofascism . Being a Socialist and of Jewish origin , Suschitzky decided there was no future for him in Austria and in 1934 left for London where his sister lived and while he was in London his father committed suicide . Suschitzky married a Dutch woman , Helena Wilhelmina Maria Elisabeth ( Puck ) Voûte in Hampstead and they moved to the Netherlands . His wife left him after a year , which he said " was great luck because had I stayed there , I would n’t be alive anymore , I 'm sure . " He returned to England in 1935 , and in 1939 married Ilona Donath , with whom he had three children Suschitzky 's first job was in the Netherlands photographing postcards for newsagents . This job lasted only a few months . He travelled to England in 1935 and became a film cameraman for Paul Rotha , with whom he had a long working relationship . Their work during the war included '' World of Plenty '' ( 1943 ) and government-sponsored information shorts and magazine programmes . With Rotha he graduated to feature films , working on '' No Resting Place '' ( 1951 ) , which was one of the first British feature films shot entirely on location . The film was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Film in 1952 . He then photographed Colin Lesslie 's production , the comedy '' The Oracle '' ( 1953 ) , followed by another Rotha film , '' Cat & Mouse '' ( 1958 ) . He also worked on Jack Clayton 's short film '' The Bespoke Overcoat '' which won an Oscar for " Best Short Subject , Two-reel " at the 1956 Oscars . He also took a photograph of the writer C. S. Lewis in approximately 1959
1956 Oscars
28th Academy Awards
Wolfgang Suschitzky