Edward Lachman
Edward “Ed” Lachman Jr. (born March 31, 1946 in Morristown , New Jersey ) is an American cameraman and photographer .
Life
Ed Lachman's mother owned several cinemas and thus enabled him to have direct contact with the film business from an early age. In the late 1960s he went to Europe and studied only art history and later at the Harvard University in addition film studies . As a cameraman he first worked on documentaries by Albert and David Maysles . His first feature film work followed in 1974 ( The Lord's of Flatbush by Marty Davidson ). He then increasingly filmed for directors of the New German Cinema such as Werner Herzog , Wim Wenders and later also Volker Schlöndorff .
Since the mid-1980s, Lachman has been working primarily in the USA again, primarily in independent cinema , but also repeatedly as a documentary filmmaker. The directors with whom he has collaborated several times include Susan Seidelman , Paul Schrader , Steven Soderbergh , Robert Altman and Todd Haynes . Lachman himself directed the music video for Annie Lennox 's cover version of Cole Porter's Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (from the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Blue ) in 1990 ; in the video, private Super 8 films by Derek Jarman are projected on Lennox's face . In 1999, Lachman received the IFP Award for Best Cinematographer for Sofia Coppola's debut film The Virgin Suicides .
His film Ken Park , made with Larry Clark in 2002 , caused a sensation in several countries due to censorship incidents (for example, he was confiscated by the police during a festival performance in Australia ). In the same year he received almost all of the major US critics 'awards for his camera work on Todd Haynes ' melodrama Far from Heaven ( Boston Society of Film Critics Award , Chicago Film Critics Association Award , Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award , Florida Film Critics Circle Award , Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award , New York Film Critics Circle Award , Online Film Critics Society Award and Seattle Film Critics Award ) as well as a special award at the Venice International Film Festival . In 2003 he received the Independent Spirit Award for this film and was nominated for the ASC Award and the Oscar . For 2015, Lachman was awarded the Marburg Camera Prize.
Lachman also works as a photographer. In 1981 he published his photo novel Chausse-Trappes (Editions de Minuit, Paris), for which Alain Robbe-Grillet wrote a foreword.
In 2002 he had his own retrospective at the Viennale .
In 2009, Lachman worked as a cameraman on Todd Solondz 's Life During Wartime and the Allen Ginsberg biopic Howl, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman .
Filmography (selection)
(As a cameraman, unless otherwise stated)
- 1974: Brooklyn Blues (Directed by Martin Davidson and Stephen F. Verona )
- 1976: How much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (Director: Werner Herzog ) - camera assistant for Thomas Mauch
- 1977: Stroszek (director: Werner Herzog) - co-camera (with Thomas Mauch ), assistant director
- 1977: La Soufrière - Waiting for an inevitable catastrophe (Director: Werner Herzog) - Co-Camera (with Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein )
- 1977: The American Friend (Director: Wim Wenders ) - camera assistant for Robby Müller
- 1978: King of the Gypsies (Director: Frank Pierson ) - Co-Camera (with Sven Nykvist )
- 1978: Wings of Ash: Pilot for a Dramatization of the Life of Antonin Artaud (Director: Marcus Reichert )
- 1979: Deadly Embrace ( Last Embrace ; Director: Jonathan Demme ) - additional photographer
- 1980: Union City (Director: Marcus Reichert)
- 1980: Nick's Film - Lightning Over Water (director: Wim Wenders & Nicholas Ray ) - co-camera (with Martin Schäfer ), actor
- 1981: They All Laughed ( They All Laughed ; Director: Peter Bogdanovich ) - Camera Operator for Robby Müller
- 1982: Report from Hollywood - also directing, producing
- 1982: Split Cherry Tree - Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
- 1984: The Last Trip to Harrisburg (The Last Trip to Harrisburg) - also co-director (with Udo Kier )
- : 1985 Susan Desperately Seeking ... ( Desperately Seeking Susan , directed by Susan Seidelman )
- 1985: Tokyo-Ga (Director: Wim Wenders)
- 1986: True Stories (Director: David Byrne )
- 1987: Making Mr. Right (Director: Susan Seidelman)
- 1987: Unter Null ( Less Than Zero ; Director: Marek Kanievska )
- 1987: A Gathering of Old Men ( A Gathering of Old Men , directed by Volker Schlöndorff )
- 1990: Catchfire ( Backtrack ; Direction: Dennis Hopper )
- 1990: Songs for Drella - direction only
- 1991: Mississippi Masala (Director: Mira Nair )
- 1991: London Kills Me (Director: Hanif Kureishi )
- 1992: Light Sleeper (Director: Paul Schrader )
- 1992: My New Gun (Directed by Stacy Cochran )
- 1995: My Family ( My Family ; Director: Gregory Nava )
- 1997: Touch (Director: Paul Schrader)
- 1997: Selena (Director: Gregory Nava)
- 1998: Why Do Fools Fall in Love (Director: Gregory Nava)
- 1999: The Virgin Suicides (Director: Sofia Coppola )
- 1999: The Limey (Director: Steven Soderbergh )
- 2000: Erin Brockovich (Director: Steven Soderbergh)
- 2000: Dr T and the Women (Director: Robert Altman ) - Co-Camera (with Jan Kiesser )
- 2001: Sweet November (Director: Pat O'Connor )
- 2002: S1m0ne (Director: Andrew Niccol )
- 2002: Ken Park - also co-director (with Larry Clark )
- 2002: Far from Heaven ( Far from Heaven , directed by Todd Haynes )
- 2003: Carmen Electra's aerobic striptease - also director
- 2006: Robert Altman's Last Radio Show ( A Prairie Home Companion ; Director: Robert Altman)
- 2006: Import Export (Director: Ulrich Seidl ) - Co-Camera (with Wolfgang Thaler )
- 2007: I'm Not There (Director: Todd Haynes)
- 2007: Hounddog (Director: Deborah Kampmeier )
- 2009: Life During Wartime (Director: Todd Solondz )
- 2009: Collapse (Director: Chris Smith )
- 2010: Howl ( Howl , directed by Jeffrey Friedman & Rob Epstein )
- 2011: Mildred Pierce (TV; Director: Todd Haynes)
- 2012: Dark Blood (Director: George Sluizer )
- 2012: Paradies: Liebe (Director: Ulrich Seidl) - Co-Camera (with Wolfgang Thaler)
- 2012: Paradies: Glaube (Director: Ulrich Seidl) - Co-Camera (with Wolfgang Thaler)
- 2013: Paradise: Hope (Director: Ulrich Seidl) - Co-Camera (with Wolfgang Thaler)
- 2015: Carol (Direction: Todd Haynes)
- 2016: Wiener-Dog (Director: Todd Solondz )
- 2017: Wonderstruck (Direction: Todd Haynes)
- 2019: Poisoned Truth ( Dark Waters , directed by Todd Haynes)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ed Lachmann - Biography and Filmography ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Edward Lachman at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with Ed Lachman about Ulrich Seidl's Import Export
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lachman, Edward |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lachman, Ed; Lachman, Edward Jr. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cameraman |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1946 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Morristown , New Jersey, USA |