Cinematography Reading List

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	"The most significant work about exposure: everything starts from here.  Adams' The Camera is also important as an introduction to visualisation."

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	"The best all-round introduction to cinematography available, relevant to DoPs at any level. Especially significant for the concept of 'filmspace', a powerful handle on how we make 3-D work in 2-D."

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	"A beautifully produced book which picks out the European contribution to cinematography, a welcome balance to the Hollywood-centric publishing elsewhere."

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	"Interested in lighting? Look at these pictures for a long time... (Updated Feb 2004) ...And then see 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' for Eduardo Serra's outstanding realisation of the period and its art."

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	"A good selection of interviews by someone who knows what they're writing about."

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	"The 'Grand Old Man' of cinematography books: still essential reading for learning the rules you're going to break..."

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	"The best diary I've read about what it's actually like to be working on a film set, and a funny and touching record of the making of a favourite film."

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	"A comprehensive technical manual, but well-written and readable. Lots of fundamental information."

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	"At last, a book by a Director of Photography! (this list is not in order of importance, just as they come off my bookshelf). Clear and well-written 'war stories' about actually making films."

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	"Film camera people are running just to keep up with what's happening in post-production: at a bare minimum we need to know what's covered here. Only the speed of change makes it slightly out of date."

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	"A classic series of interviews, there are others but this is the first and has lots of good insights."

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	"More for Assistants, but this list without something by David Samuelson would be like leaving J.K. Rowling out of Children's Books. You should have this book if you call yourself a cinematographer."

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	"Can't leave this off a Cinematography Reading List."

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	"Pithy, well-written and well-illustrated short pieces in a handsome volume."

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	"This and the companion volume (More Contemporary Cinematographers...) have some good pieces - ignore Focal Press's customary shoddy editing and glean lots of useful titbits"

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	"A book which has more and more relevance as you start to cut sequences together in your head before you shoot them."

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	"A wonderful book, and if anyone needs an insight into why we would want to do this job, this answers all the questions."

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	"Read this book to realise how film-making hasn't changed fundamentally since it came out of adolescence in the 1920s."

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	"Well-produced visual comparisons of the differences filter and laboratory choices can make to the look of the image."

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	"Sadly no longer with us, but he lives on in his beautiful films (Days of Heaven is essential viewing) and this lovely book."

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	"More interviews, worth a browse."

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	"It's called the film Business for a reason. Read (and marvel at) what goes on long before the Cinematographer is employed..."

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	"Well-laid-out, comprehensive guide to post-production by someone who solves the problems involved daily."

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	"Very expensive, but edited with more analysis than is common by someone who has an eye for subtlety and the wider significance of the pictures."

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	"Fascinating insight into the editing process, two brilliant minds dissect the creation of some of the past 30 years' most important films."