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Oh yes, he is turning the winding knob.

Great idea. I will see if I can get this higher-resolution scan. Did any of the various Hawkeye box cameras take glass plates?

Couldn't agree more. I just want to be able to say definitively that it could not be the camera because the Kodak Six-20 Brownie was not made until a few years after 1931. Then, I will propose your suggestion.

The Picasso Museum in Paris (the person in charge of documentary photographic collections) has suggested to me that the camera is a Kodak Six-20 Brownie Junior. https://www.ebay.fr/itm/133698754190?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=709-53476-19255-0&campid=5338722076&customid=&toolid=10050 I am no expert...

It's a very good question! I don't know, but I am piecing together what little I do know. I should ask the question the other way round: The negatives we have from Picasso at this time included many 9 x 12 glass plates. Could he have loaded glass plates into a Brownie or Hawkeye camera?? Or...

I actually have some more information now as I have seen some negatives. The camera took glass plates (9x12cm). Does the Rainbow Hawkeye 2a take 9 x 12 glass slides? Thanks! @Don Heisz

You are right! I had not noticed that. He is holding the strap and tilting the camera forwards. I think that is case closed; don't you? Could you be persuaded to cadge a thick rolled up fag from someone and then replicate the photograph so you are holding your Hawkeye in the same way?

Great thought! Gertrude Stein took this photo of Picasso and so if an image survives, it would be known. But I will look...

The Rainbow Hawkeye 2a looks very nice. I note it has two circles upper left on the front. These cannot be seen on Picasso's camera [green rectangle]. Also, there are some details on Picasso's camera [cyan rectangle], possibly a nameplate, that I cannot see on the Hawkeye. Were there different...

So, if you had to take a stab in the dark, what camera would you say that Picasso was holding? I am interested to know what you think it could be. Thanks ever so!

Absolutely, but perhaps they had supplies from friends and family USA. I agree more likely the camera was made in Europe than the US.

You are probably right, but there is a chance the camera was a gift from Gertrude Stein. Stein took this photo of Picasso using the camera in 1930. She was American. It's all guesses, but not impossible.

Thanks @Ian Grant and @Dan Fromm That is what I will do!

Can anyone (please) identify the camera seen here being used (poorly) by Picasso in 1930.

Yes! Less than £10 in USA and six times that in Europe. I will wait patiently until a cheap copy comes on to the market. Seems like the book I need. Thank you.