Director of photography Tom Richmond, whose resume includes work in films such as get up and surrender, kill zoe, Little Odessa, The Poor of Beverly Hills s Nick and Nora’s Endless Playlist, died. He was 72 years old.
Richmond died Friday in New York, said Anthony Jannelli, director of photography at New York’s Tisch School of the Arts. the hollywood reporter (Richmond also taught at NYU.) The cause of death was not immediately known.
Richmond, who was the director of nearly four dozen featured photographs, also photographed Keenan Ivory Wayans. I will give you a sukkah (1988), Scott Silver John (1996), directed by Rob Zombie A house of 1000 corpses (2003) and Todd Solondze palindromes (2004).
He won the Sundance Award for Best Cinematography in 2006 for his work right at your doorA drama about a terrorist attack with chemical bombs.
Received Spirit Award nominations get up and deliver (1988), Edward James Olmos’ breakout director Ramón Menéndez; to spend (1990), A Love Letter to Baseball; and a crime drama starring Tim Roth Little Odessa (1994), which was James Gray’s directorial debut.
Richmond filmed all of Keith Gordon’s films – chocolate war (1988), holy midnight (1992), mothers night (nineteen ninety-six), waking the dead (2000) and the singing detective (2003).
And for director Jesse Peretz, he acted as DP First love, last rites (1997), Castle (2001) and the first (2006).
Richmond “was an older guy with a teenage skate vibe. He referred to himself as the Keith Richards of photography. And in a way it was just that,” Peretz wrote on Facebook.
He taught me not only about photography, but also about characters and stories. He never wanted photography to take the stage for the characters, and in that way it served his films and his stories, even if it hurt his ability to attract attention and promote himself.
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Born in Bronxville, New York, in 1950, Thomas Julian Richmond majored in photography at Harvard University.
In 1976-78 he studied at the UCLA Film School, and in 1979-80 at the American Film Institute, then worked as a cameraman for Alex Cox. repo man (1984) and Oliver Stone the Savior (1986).
He and Cox teamed up straight to hell (1987), walker (1987) and the winner (nineteen ninety-six).
for that Little OdessaHe and Gray decided to go widescreen and shoot at the 2.35 aspect ratio used by Sergio Leone in his spaghetti westerns.
Except Roger Ewar kill zoe (1993) Tamara Jenkins The Poor of Beverly Hills (1998) and Peter Soletti Nick and Nora’s Endless Playlist (2008), Richmond filmed CM Talkington’s love and .45 (1994) Directed by Ross Kagan Marks golden twilight (1996) by Ethan Hawke the walls of chelsea (2001), Brian Kopelman and David Levien punching boys (2001), by JP Schaefer chapter 27 (2007) and Rob Meyer A bird’s guide to everything. (2013).
A huge fan of music, especially punk rock, Richmond has filmed music videos for Pearl Jam (“Jeremy”), New Order, Iris DeMent, Emmylou Harris, Foo Fighters, Grace Jones, The Go-Go’s, Eric Clapton, and more.
In recent years, he has taught at Brooklyn College and New York University.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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