Edward Lachman
Edward "Ed" Lachman Jr. ( born March 31, 1946 in Morristown, New Jersey ) is an American cinematographer and photographer.
Life
Ed Lachman's mother was the owner of several cinemas and enabled him so early direct contact with the film business. In the late 1960s he went to Europe and studied only art history, later at Harvard University in addition film studies. As a cameraman he worked with documentary film by Albert and David Maysles. 1974 was followed by his first feature film work ( The Lord's of Flatbush by Marty Davidson). Then he filmed reinforced for directors of the New German Cinema as Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, and later Volker Schlöndorff.
Since the mid- 1980s Lachman works again primarily in the U.S., primarily in the independent cinema, but also time and again as a documentary filmmaker. Among the directors with whom he collaborated on several occasions, including Susan Seidelman, Paul Schrader, Steven Soderbergh, Robert Altman and Todd Haynes. Lachman itself was conducted in 1990 directed the music video for Annie Lennox's cover version of Cole Porter's Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye ( from the AIDS benefit album Red Hot Blue ); private Super - 8 films of Derek Jarman are projected to Lennox's face in the video. For Sofia Coppola's debut film The Virgin Suicides Lachman awarded the 1999 IFP Award for Best Cinematographer.
His 2002 rotated together with Larry Clark film Ken Park attracted by censorship incidents in several countries sensation ( he was in Australia seized during a festival performance of the police). In the same year he was awarded for his camera work on Todd Haynes ' melodrama Far from Heaven almost all the major critics awards in the USA ( Boston Society of Film Critics Award, Chicago Film Critics Association Award, Dallas - Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award, Florida Film Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles film Critics Association Award, New York Film Critics Circle Award, online film Critics Society Award and Seattle Film Critics Award ) and a special prize at the International Film Festival in Venice. In 2003 he was for this film won the Independent Spirit Award and nominated for the ASC Award and an Oscar.
Incidentally Lachman has also worked as a photographer. In 1981 he published his novel photo - Chausse Trappes (Editions de Minuit, Paris), for the Alain Robbe-Grillet wrote a preface.
2002 was dedicated to him at the Viennale own retrospective.
In 2009, Lachman worked as a cameraman to Todd Solondz ' Life During Wartime and the Allen Ginsberg biopic Howl, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.
Filmography (selection)
( As a cameraman, unless otherwise stated )