From American Cinematographer, A Transcendent Career Foretold by Bob Fisher (February '99)
"I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine."
- Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC
I read, discuss, and discover new things about cinematography everyday. Most of it, I consider incredibly interesting. Everyday I will share one of those things, maybe more if I have time.
Showing posts with label fine arts. Show all posts
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12.5.09
Peter Suschitzky: On His 'Painterly Style'
From American Cinematographer, Flesh for Fantasy by Eric Rudolph (May 1999)
"We're all subconsciously influenced by all that we look at as we go through life. I have always loved the visual arts, including painting, but paintings and photography are necessarily different, if related. In photography, we can never experience or convey, as can the painter, the touch of brush on canvas or the feeling of the passage in the making of the painting. Light is only one element in the medium, and ours is a medium involving optics and chemistry, and is very much of the instantaneous moment. We should not try to mimic painting, rather we should use our medium for what it is; a mimicry of painting will usually just look awkward, if not kitsch."
- Peter Suschitzky, BSC
"We're all subconsciously influenced by all that we look at as we go through life. I have always loved the visual arts, including painting, but paintings and photography are necessarily different, if related. In photography, we can never experience or convey, as can the painter, the touch of brush on canvas or the feeling of the passage in the making of the painting. Light is only one element in the medium, and ours is a medium involving optics and chemistry, and is very much of the instantaneous moment. We should not try to mimic painting, rather we should use our medium for what it is; a mimicry of painting will usually just look awkward, if not kitsch."
- Peter Suschitzky, BSC
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