Roger Deakins
Christopher Doyle
Vilmos Zsigmond
John Alcott
Conrad L. Hall
Sven Nykvist
Gregg Toland
Russell Metty
Stanley Cortez
Jack Cardiff
Raoul Coutard
Yuuharu Atsuta
How could no one mention Gordon Willis?
Deakins, Alcott, Zsigmond and Robert Alswit also come to mind.
Nestor Almendros, John Alton, Caroline Champetier, Raoul Coutard, Henri Decaë, Gianni Di Venanzo, Christopher Doyle, Karl Freund, Giuseppe Lanci, William Lubtchansky, Tony Merzetti, Sven Nykvist, Giuseppe Rotunno and Vittorio Storaro.
Janusz Kaminski
Sven Nykvist – Very Simplistic and beautiful.
Vittorio Storaro – Gives the movies a fantastic look of scope
Emmanuel Lubezki – Children of Men, thats why!
Henri Dacae! %Pr
Wally Pfister: His work on The Prestige and Dark Knight are hallmarks of exemplary cinematography.
Jordan Cronenweth – Blade Runner.
Emmanuel Lubezki: Children of men is the most innovative movie of the last five years.
Geoffrey Unsworth: Then shot BOTH Superman AND 2001. Genius.
Roger Deakins: Last of the masters still alive.
Janusz Kaminski: No one does it like he does.
Robert Richardson is often imitaded, never equaled.
Last but not least Darius Khondji: Master of bold, dutch style. Also, use of ENR (Bleach Bypass) in films.
Mention also Maleek Sayeed (great DP) and Henri Decae (Army of Shadows, Le Samurai).
The list will keep going…
some newer ones..I think Tim Orr and Lance Accord have a lot of potential.
Emmanuel Lubezki – Fantastic work in Y tu mama tambien and The New World
Tim Orr – Most of his films have shown his great talent, I cant wait to see what else he works on
I’ll second (or third) most of the people cited.
But no one mentioned Harris Savides!
Lance Acord also.
13 posts and only one mention of Greg Toland, that’s kind of shocking, he did shoot “Citizen Kane” after all. Otherwise, Miyagawa’s work on “Rashomon” and “Ugetsu” alone gets my nod.
I’ve always loved Sacha Vierny’s work with both Alain Resnais and Peter Greenaway. Exquisite in black and white as well as in color.
Alwin Kuchler (Ratcatcher, Morvern Caller, Code 46, Sunshine)
yeah!!! double posts rawk!!!
Anthony Dod Mantle – for his work in 28 Days Later
Emmanuel Lubezki – for his work in Children of Men
Raoul Coutard – duh… A Bout de Souffle
Roger Deakins – for his work in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Robert Burks – for his work with Alfred Hitchcock
Robert D. Yeoman – for his work with Wes Anderson
@ Zak: cheers for alwin— sunshine had so many brilliant pieces to it…
Marcel Zyskind
Raoul Coutard is always the first name that pops into my head. It’s really him who made me fall in love with film.
Sven Nykvist
Gunner Fischer
Conrad Hall
Gregg Toland
Frederick Elmes!
John Alton, Nicholas Musuraca, George Diskant, and Victor Milner; just four of the geniuses who made Film Noir so beautifully expressive in the 40’s and 50’s.
James Wong Howe- The Sweet Smell Of Success- which should also get the Criterion treatment
Christopher Doyle
Just to be old-fashioned Conrad L. Hall especially for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Sven Nykvist in his work for both Bergman and Woody Allen
Oh and for whoever cited this one:
Anthony Dod Mantle – for his work in 28 Days Later
good call
I was getting worried no one was going to list Conrad Hall, but luckily there are 2 mentions.
Vilmos Zsigmond
Roger Deakins
Sven Nykvist
Tonino Delli Colli
Gordon Willis
with a nod to Darius Khondji.
I think most of the ones I would have named have been mentioned already, so I guess I’ll just say that I think is interesting that Kubrick apparently did the cinematography for Eyes Wide Shut. Also, Vincent Gallo shot The Brown Bunny. No small feat, I’d say.
Robert Krasker for “The Third Man”
Darius Khondji
Claudio Miranda…his work is great and I’m really excited for “…Benjamin Buttons”
Freddie Young
Wally Pfister
Vittorio Storaro
These are just a few.
Oh wow, Vincent Gallo filmed his own cock being sucked?
Sam Lim
Nestor Almendros
Christopher Doyle
Sven Nykvist