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Painting With Light

Paperback • 2013 • English

Painting With Light

By John Alton

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About the book

Few cinematographers have had as decisive an impact on the cinematic medium as John Alton. Best known for his highly stylized film noir classics T-Men, He Walked by Night, and The Big Combo, Alton earned a reputation during the 1940s and 1950s as one of Hollywood's consummate craftsmen through his visual signature of crisp shadows and sculpted beams of light. No less renowned for his virtuoso color cinematography and deft appropriation of widescreen and Technicolor, he earned an Academy Award in...Show more

Films, cinema
Film history, theory or criticism
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ISBN

9780520275843

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

Painting With Light

Format

Paperback

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