1930–1992 · Spain · Cinematographer
Nestor Almendros
Natural window light and magic-hour exteriors.
Days of Heaven, 1978Source: Wikipedia
CINEMATOGRAPHER · BORN 1945 · POLAND
Slawomir Idziak
Coloured filters that wash a whole film in one emotional tone.
- Born
- 1945
- Country
- Poland
- Field
- Cinematographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1993Three Colours: Blue
- 1991The Double Life of Véronique
- 1997Gattaca
- 2001Black Hawk Down
WHY THEY MATTER
Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for Black Hawk Down; Three Colours: Blue is on the ASC list of the best-photographed films of the twentieth century.
THE LIFE
Idziak was born in Katowice and is known above all for his work with Krzysztof Kieslowski and Krzysztof Zanussi, including fourteen films with Zanussi. He shot Kieslowski's Three Colours: Blue, which the American Society of Cinematographers placed among the best-photographed films of the twentieth century. He won an honourable mention in Berlin for Michael Winterbottom's I Want You. In mainstream cinema he shot Gattaca and Black Hawk Down, which earned Academy Award and BAFTA nominations.
Also born in 1930–1959
1930–2001 · India · Cinematographer
Subrata Mitra
Natural bounce light and quiet realism.
Pather Panchali, 1955Source: Wikipedia
1930–2016 · United States · Cinematographer
Vilmos Zsigmond
Pre-flashed, muted colour and atmospheric haze.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977Source: Wikipedia
1931–2014 · United States · Cinematographer
Gordon Willis
Top light and deep underexposure that earned him the name the Prince of Darkness.
The Godfather, 1972Source: Wikipedia
1933–2007 · United States · Cinematographer
Laszlo Kovacs
Loose, natural-light American New Wave photography.
Easy Rider, 1969Source: Wikipedia
1934–2001 · United States · Cinematographer
John A. Alonzo
Naturalistic, cinema verite-inspired photography of the New Hollywood.
Chinatown, 1974Source: Wikipedia