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"Winding through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey, the battlefields of Belgium during World War I, and the faded Knickerbocker Hotel in 1960s Hollywood, The Electric Hotel follows the intertwined fates of the cinematographer Claude Ballard and his muse, Sabine Montrose."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Focal Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Covers the complex craft of cinematography through discussions with notable cinematographers, likeVittorio Storaro and Christopher Doyle. With stills, photos from the sets,and in-depth exploration of both iconic and contemporary projects. --from publisher description
7) Sizzle reel
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For aspiring cinematographer Luna Roth, coming out as bisexual at twenty-four is proving more difficult than she anticipated. Sure, her best friend and fellow queer Romy is thrilled for her-but she has no interest in coming out to her backwards parents, she wouldn't know how to flirt with a girl if one fell at her feet, and she has neither a gaydar nor a sexual history to speak of. Not to mention she really needs to focus her energy on escaping her...
8) Effects
Publisher
Synapse Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Joe Pilato ... stars as Dominic, a young and enterprising cinematographer who ventures to a remote mountain retreat to provide camerawork and special effects on a low-budget horror movie. What he finds there is a skeleton crew made up of eccentric and unpredictable talents. Even worse, the director ... is a humorless dictator who likes to shoot at all hours of the night. While the director orchestrates his scenes of terror and fright, behind the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
"The Thames may still flow through the heart of London, but life along its shores has dramatically changed. The inhabitants of London's Docklands - crafty Cockney miscreants of yore - have lately been shoved aside by an onslaught of sleek condos and chic cafes. In Downriver, Iain Sinclair's first book to be published in the United States, the author traces the ruins of Thatcher's reign, through the lens of a fictional film crew that has been hired...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Film and television director and notable raconteur Barry Sonnenfeld's outrageous and hilarious memoir, tracing his idiosyncratic upbringing in Washington Heights, his breaking into film as a cinematographer with the Coen brothers, and his unexpected career as the director behind such huge film franchises as The Addams Family and Men in Black, and beloved work like Get Shorty and A Series of Unfortunate Events"--
11) Edward S. Curtis in the land of the war canoes: a pioneer cinematographer in the Pacific Northwest
Author
Series
Monograph ; 2
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
12) Cameraperson
Series
Criterion collection ; 853
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home with the director: Kirsten Johnson weaves these scenes and others into her film, a tapestry of footage captured over her twenty-five-year career as a documentary cinematographer.
Author
Publisher
Joseph Henry Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"The photography of Eadweard Muybridge is immediately familiar to us. Less familiar is the dramatic personal story of this seminal and wonderfully eccentric Victorian pioneer." "In his work, we see some of the first icons of the modern visual age. Men, women, boxers, wrestlers, racehorses, elephants, and camels frozen in time, captured in the act of moving, fighting, galloping, living. Scarcely a day goes by without their use somewhere in today's...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, The Mark Lynton History Prize, and the Sally Hacker Prize for the History of Technology
“A panoramic vision of cultural change” —The New York Times
Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Orwell's Roses explores what it was about California in...
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, The Mark Lynton History Prize, and the Sally Hacker Prize for the History of Technology
“A panoramic vision of cultural change” —The New York Times
Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Orwell's Roses explores what it was about California in...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"For twenty years John Aitchison has been traveling the world to film wildlife for a variety of international TV shows, taking him to far-away places on every continent. Aitchison reveals what happens behind the scenes and beyond the camera. He explains the practicalities and challenges of the filming process, and the problems of survival in perilous places. He records touching moments and dramatic incidents, some ending in success, others desperately...
