1901–1988 · Japan · Cinematographer
Asakazu Nakai
Kurosawa's camera for rain, mud and vast colour battlefields.
Seven Samurai, 1954Source: Wikipedia
CINEMATOGRAPHER · 1904–1948 · UNITED STATES
Gregg Toland
Deep focus, with near and far planes sharp at once.
- Born
- 1904
- Died
- 1948
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Cinematographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1941Citizen Kane
- 1940The Grapes of Wrath
- 1939Wuthering Heights
- 1946The Best Years of Our Lives
WHY THEY MATTER
Won the Academy Award for Wuthering Heights from six nominations; voted among the ten most influential cinematographers in film history by the International Cinematographers Guild.
THE LIFE
Toland was an American cinematographer known above all for deep focus. He used it on Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives and John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath. He earned six Academy Award nominations and won for Wuthering Heights. He died in 1948 at forty-four.
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
1906–1980 · United States · Cinematographer
Boris Kaufman
Poetic realist black and white.
On the Waterfront, 1954Source: Wikipedia