In today's New York Times Stephen Holden pens an obituary for Sven Nykvist, cinematographer for many of Ingmar Bergman's films. Nykvist, who was 83, won two Academy Awards and was a great proponent of the use of naturalistic lighting. Holden offers this 1995 quotation from Nykvist:
"One of the things [Bergman and I] believed was that a picture shouldn't look lit. Whenever possible, I lit with one source and avoided creating double shadows, because that pointed to photography."
Read the obituary
here, and a 1984 interview by the American Film Institute
here.
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