Sacha Vierny
Sacha Vierny ( born August 10, 1919 in Bois- le- Roi, Seine- et- Marne, † 15 May 2001, Paris) was a French cinematographer.
Life
Vierny studied at film schools IDHEC and ENPC. From 1947 he assisted in various camera crews, at the beginning of the 50s he was responsible for the photography of short films. Together with Ghislain Cloquet he was first hired for the film Night and Fog as chief cameraman. A particularly intense collaboration occurred with Alain Resnais, whose films he photographed many years developed a very particular aesthetic: " It is worth noting especially his multi-faceted lighting, which makes it appear very three-dimensional objects of his pictures and usually connected to a safe controlled depth of field is. " a similarly intensive collaboration followed with Peter Greenaway, with whom he composed pictures for a number of films that corresponded to the style of the director ..