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The Art of Cinematography Vittorio Storaro, Bob Fisher, Lorenzo Codelli
Specifications Size 111/2 x 111/2 in. (29 x 29 cm) Dual-language edition (English-Italian) 352 pages, 125 colour and 216 b/w illustrations hardcover + DVD ISBN 978-88-572-1753-6 £ 70.00, $ 115.00, Can. $ 115.00
A rereading of the Seventh Art through the eyes of the most important authors of cinematographic photography
Publication March 2014
great figurative work that for the first time ever offers a re-reading of the Seventh Art through the eyes of the most important authors of film photography worldwide, for an original vision of the all-time masterpieces of Cinema. A rich array, almost a catalogue raisonné, of the major movies of world cinema starting in 1910 and stretching all the way to our day and age, describing 150 profiles of cinematographers. World-class figures who have helped us to dream and taught us to love: The Art of Cinematography. Essentially a tribute by the Writers of Light to the Writers of Light. This book, written by Lorenzo Codelli and Bob Fisher, is illustrated with double vision photographs, specially reworked by the editor, Vittorio Storaro, and it is enriched with contributions by Luciano Tovoli, Gabriele Lucci, and Daniele Nannuzzi.
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• The book comes with the DVD Videopedia with moving images taken from the 150 movies that have made cinema history, curated by Daniele Nannuzzi and accompanied by an original “soundtrack” by Francesco Cara. Bob Fischer is ASC Cinematographers Magazine-Academy Oscar nominee and a Kodak Magazine winner. Lorenzo Codelli is director of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. Vittorio Storaro (Rome, 1940) started out as director of photography in 1968 with the film Giovinezza Giovinezza directed by Franco Rossi. He has received numerous international awards and prizes, among which three Oscar awards, conferred by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Los Angeles, for the films Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Reds directed by Warren Beatty and The Last Emperor directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. 26