Friday, October 12, 2012
Film
The Five Best Clips from the Late Harris Savides, Cinematographer for Gus Van Sant, Noah Baumbach and Others
Posted
by Henry Stewart
on Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:50 AM
Fuck fuck fuck. There's no sadder celebrity death than that of a great artist still in his or her prime. Only a handful of cinematographers ever achieve a level of notability and name-recognition comparable to directors, and Harris Savides was certainly one of them. He was one of the top men in his business, crafting gorgeous images—the
headline of his
Times obituary
calls him a "Visual Poet"—for Gus Van Sant, David Fincher, Noah Baumbach and others, and he died earlier this week from brain cancer. Here's some of his best work.
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