1901–1988 · Japan · Cinematographer
Asakazu Nakai
Kurosawa's camera for rain, mud and vast colour battlefields.
Seven Samurai, 1954Source: Wikipedia
CINEMATOGRAPHER · 1914–2009 · UNITED KINGDOM
Jack Cardiff
Painterly early Technicolor, from silent film to colour masterpieces.
- Born
- 1914
- Died
- 2009
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Field
- Cinematographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1947Black Narcissus
- 1948The Red Shoes
- 1946A Matter of Life and Death
WHY THEY MATTER
Won the Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Black Narcissus; BSC lifetime achievement award (1995); Academy Award nomination as director of Sons and Lovers; OBE.
THE LIFE
Cardiff's career ran from silent film through the early experiments in Technicolor to work more than half a century later. He is best known for his colour photography for Powell and Pressburger on A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes, and for John Huston's The African Queen. Black Narcissus won him the Academy Award. As a director he made Sons and Lovers, which earned him a nomination for Best Director.
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