1901–1988 · Japan · Cinematographer
Asakazu Nakai
Kurosawa's camera for rain, mud and vast colour battlefields.
Seven Samurai, 1954Source: Wikipedia
CINEMATOGRAPHER · 1920–1966 · ITALY
Gianni Di Venanzo
Luminous modern black and white.
- Born
- 1920
- Died
- 1966
- Country
- Italy
- Field
- Cinematographer
KNOWN FOR
- 19638 1/2
- 1958Big Deal on Madonna Street
- 1961La Notte
- 1965The 10th Victim
WHY THEY MATTER
One of the leading European masters of the camera of his time, through work with Antonioni, Francesco Rosi and Fellini.
THE LIFE
Di Venanzo was born in Teramo and belonged to the neorealist, post-neorealist and modern schools of Italian cinema. He shot Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche, Il Grido, La Notte and L'Eclisse, and Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano and Hands Over the City. For Federico Fellini he shot 8 1/2 and Juliet of the Spirits. He died of viral hepatitis in Rome at forty-five, and his last film was Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Honey Pot.
Also born in 1900–1929
1901–1996 · United States · Cinematographer
John Alton
Hard shadows and pools of light that defined film noir.
T-Men, 1947Source: Wikipedia
1901–1974 · United States · Cinematographer
Leon Shamroy
Bold Technicolor of the Fox studio era.
Leave Her to Heaven, 1945Source: Wikipedia
1902–1998 · United Kingdom · Cinematographer
Freddie Young
Sweeping, lush widescreen colour.
Lawrence of Arabia, 1962Source: Wikipedia
1902–2000 · Italy · Cinematographer
Otello Martelli
Neorealist grit that opened up into Fellini's nocturnal spectacle.
La Dolce Vita, 1960Source: Wikipedia
1904–1948 · United States · Cinematographer
Gregg Toland
Deep focus, with near and far planes sharp at once.
Citizen Kane, 1941Source: Wikipedia