From American Cinematographer, Still Lives, Distant Vistas by Andrew O. Thompson (Dec. 1998)
"There's something very compelling about the graphic quality of black-and-white photography. Color is very difficult to control and can be very distracting. Just look at great works of art that use color selectively. Accenting a huge canvas with a small piece of primary color-- like a red or blue-- against a field of pastels can exert an extraordinarily powerful pull on the eye. In cinema, you can control the palette with art direction, but there's no control over that in the real world for the documentarian and the still photographer. I have seen color photography that I love, but the idea of an image made up of silver on paper speaks more directly to me."
- Phil Parmet, Photographer
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.
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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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