“It’s not a cameraman’s job to make nice pictures,” Ed Lachman says, “but to bring out the truth.” With this as his guiding principle, the New York-based Lachman has played an invaluable role in the development of cinematic art over the past four decades – and, in the process, overcome the borders between feature film and documentary, music video and experimental film. Lachman’s pictures show that it is possible to maintain high artistic standards everywhere: at the foot of a seething volcano in Guadeloupe (in the documentary film LA SOUFRIÈRE), in the Hollywood production ERIN BROKOVICH, or at a filmed concert with Lou Reed and John Cale (SONGS FOR DRELLA).

 

Thursday, October 29 2009