Nicolas Hayer
Lucien Nicolas Hayer ( born May 1, 1898 in Paris, † October 29, 1978 in Saint- Laurent- du- Var) was a French cinematographer.
Life
Hayer, a third of a century, an experienced craftsman in the French entertainment movie, began working as a cameraman for the army of his country. In 1923 he went as a newsreel and documentary cameraman to East Asia, to the final image recordings in Siberia. The following year he traveled to Indochina, where he was also active as photographer until 1928. Impressed by his work, put it in 1928, the MGM one for which he should produce newsreels and reports.
Back in France, Hayer took his cinema activity in 1931 as a feature film cinematographer on. Until the outbreak of World War II Hayers tasks were mostly pure routine, only during the German occupation he had a chance to put his skills to the test. So is the artistic success of Henri- Georges Clouzot's thriller The Raven, a gloomy picture of manners from the occupation period, due to a considerable extent on Hayers camera work. Six years later signed him Jean Cocteau for his modern version of Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus in 1949 Hayers second major work, in which he gave Cocteau staging ideas with his idiosyncratic visual compositions an optical frame.
After ten years working on artistically ambitious little entertainment confection Hayer in 1959 hired by Nouvelle Vague director Eric Rohmer to make its debut in the sign of Leo with suggestive images. Among the other top directors who employed Hayer, Julien Duvivier count, Jean -Pierre Melville, Louis Daquin and Christian - Jaque. Since Nicolas Hayer in 1960 moved to the state television ORTF, he had rarely worked for the movie.