Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A movie photographer, especially one who is in charge of the camera and lighting crews on a production.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who uses a cinematograph. Also
kinematographer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who takes motion pictures with a movie camera, especially one expert in the art.
- noun one who exhibits motion pictures; an operator of a motion picture projector; a projectionist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun cinematography a
photographer who operates a movie camera, or who oversees the operations of the cameras and lighting when making a film
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a photographer who operates a movie camera
Etymologies
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Examples
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The camera work by the cinematographer is first rate, and the film goes over many standard Hitchcock themes such as voyeurism - especially apt in this cyberworld of 24/7 voyeurism.
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He also praises it as much as the others before, saying that the result of Steven Soderbergh's work as director, editor, and cinematographer is "expressive, innovative, striking, exciting."
Why You Should Take an Interest in Steven Soderbergh's Che « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The man who will shoot the video is Aravind Krishna, a young cinematographer from the Tamil film industry.
rediff.com 2010
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The cinematographer was the estimable Paul Sarossy.
'Like Crazy': From Cupid's Blunders, Wonders Joe Morgenstern 2011
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The executive producer of Splice is the Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, whose Pan's Labyrinth is arguably the most original horror movie of this century, and the cinematographer is the Japanese-trained Tetsuo Nagata, who did a fine job on the Piaf biopic La vie en rose.
Splice 2010
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The cinematographer was the excellent Rodrigo Prieto.
I Love You, Brave, Bracing 'Blue Valentine' Joe Morgenstern 2010
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As the camera the cinematographer is the gifted Andrew Reed moves around the table from one to the other, the warm light brightens their faces, pulling them out of the dark and toward shared discovery.
NYT > Home Page By MANOHLA DARGIS 2011
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St. Leger, who has a background in TV commercials, and Mather, best known as a cinematographer, sprang to attention with their technically cutting-edge digital short "Prey Alone," a manhunt thriller.
Variety.com 2010
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Best known as a cinematographer, Gu gained international fame with his directorial debut, winning the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2005 for his epic
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Best known as a cinematographer, Gu gained international fame with his directorial debut, winning the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2005 for his epic
whichbe commented on the word cinematographer
Often a movie's director will get the credit for artsy things that cinematographers do.
June 10, 2009