I think that could well be it, although given it's size, maybe it's a 2a. If it's a Cartridge Hawkeye, that would explain why there's only one tab on top.
The No 2 Cartridge Hawkeye loads from the front, and was made in Europe and introduced in 1926.
Ian
Picasso seemed to like using Russian cameras and he had no love for Germans. From such a fuzzy photograph it could be anything - not even a camera but a box of sweets.
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Rainbow Hawkeye 2a model b
Would be interesting to do a bit of research on if there is a an opposite side?
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.
The two circles are on the front of the camera - they are the viewing lenses. Your green rectangle is on the top of the camera and the cyan rectangle shows the viewing window, which you can see on the Rainbow Hawkeye. The cameras are a very close match, if not identical.
There were altogether too many versions of too many different box cameras. The camera I found is the closest match to what he has that I've looked at.
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, assuming not, what camera might he have used?How do you know the glass plates are from the camera he's holding? I'm not saying they're not, just wondering how you matched negatives to a particular camera.
Kodak Six-20 Brownie Junior
I'd say that's not the camera.
The features on the six-20 brownie junior are incorrect. It opens from the back, the handle is diagonal, the top viewfinder is on the wrong side and it is too small.
2a Cartridge Hawkeye and Rainbow Hawkeye are basically the same, the Rainbow's came in a variety of colors. I believe they are closest to your example. They all had small differences over time, plus European Kodak's sometimes differed from US models.
Perhaps the photograph could be scanned with higher quality, it might show more detail of the front of the camera, I recently scanned some 6cmx9cm photos and could actually read the title of a book someone was holding 10 feet from the camera.
Did any of the various Hawkeye box cameras take glass plates?
the camera in your photo does not use glass plates
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