Edward Lachman Net Worth

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Edward Lachman Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Edward Lachman, A.S.C. (born March 31, 1948) is an American cinematographer. Lachman is mostly associated with the American independent film movement, and has served as director of photography on films by Todd Haynes (including Far From Heaven, which earned Lachman an Academy Award nomination) and I'm Not There in 2007 and Steven Soderbergh such as Erin Brockovich. His other work include Desperately Seeking Susan in 1985 as well as Robert Altman's last picture A Prairie Home Companion in 2006. Lachman has also worked on several non-American films, including two documentaries by Wim Wenders (one of which, Lightning Over Water, was shot in the United States) and La Soufrière by Werner Herzog.In 1989, Lachman co-directed a segment of the anthology film Imagining America.In 2002, Lachman co-directed the controversial Ken Park with Larry Clark. He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers.In 2013, Lachman produced a series of videos in collaboration with French electronic duo Daft Punk, for the duo's album Random Access Memories.

Date Of BirthMarch 31, 1948
Place Of BirthMorristown, New Jersey, United States
ProfessionCinematographer, Camera Department, Director
EducationHarvard University (1965), Ohio University
AwardsIndependent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography
NominationsAcademy Award for Best Cinematography
Star SignAries
#Quote
1[on Kodak's new Super 8 camera] The first camera I ever picked up was the Super 8 camera and it's still a joy to play and experiment with. There's always a sense of discovery with the form. I've actually used it in a number of feature films including My Family (1995), Selena (1997) and I'm Not There. (2007). [2016]
2[on why he shot Carol (2015) on Super 16mm] Film grain. Even 35mm negative is so grainless that it almost looks digital when you go through a DI. And the same can be said obviously for the digital world. When you shoot digitally they can add grain to the film, but it doesn't operate the same way. In a digital world, everything's pixel-fixated in the same place. Grain moves. It has, I think, an anthropomorphic lity]. I like to feel, like, a pulsing of something living underneath the surface of the image. So by referencing Super 16 I felt it could harken back or it could give a reference to the way you could look at a photograph from 50 or 60 years ago, that the grain structure was different back then. And Super 16, through a DI, through a digital intermediate, would feel like looking at a photograph from the past. So that was the real idea. Then this feeling of another layer of seeing their emotions through grain captured, I thought, another emotional quality of their performance. [2015]
3[on using Super 16mm for Carol (2015)] We wanted to capture the feeling of a different time period. You feel there's something underlying and subjugating the image. The fine grain and highlights are constantly moving from frame to frame, and the grain becomes almost another skin for the characters. This is something that lacks when shooting in digital. Film is a chemical process and digital is an electronic process, and the chemical one is closer to the human condition than electronic. [2015]
4[on experimenting with compositions in Carol (2015)] I like to think of compositions as the architecture of the space that creates the frame. The architecture of the frame can imprison the character and make a statement of their own emotions. I never feel like we're in a close-up medium-long-shot world. I'm always looking with Todd for framing that incorporates the emotion of the scene in that space. Where you put the camera in its height in relation to space is about point of view. To me, the camera is about where you're telling the story, about who's point of view, and how you see stuff. Do you see it from Carol's point of view or Therese's? We're playing with how a frame affects the emotions of the character. I'm trying to make adjustments of the camera with their own movement and flow. [2015]
5[on lighting strategies in Carol (2015)] My philosophy of lighting is we weren't using theatrical lighting like studio or stage lighting. We were lighting the spaces. It was important for me to use naturalistic lighting. In Far from Heaven (2002), I had to make the Universal back lot look theatrical, there was an artifice to it. In this, I was on real location creating naturalism. Cincinnati was so wonderful and was so caught up in that period that we didn't have to create something that wasn't there. [2015]
6Often in period films there's tendency to over-romanticize the era. For example, why are the cars always clean in period films? Didn't they have dirty cars back then? Why is all furniture from that exact period? People own things that are 10 years or 20 years old. Why is it when you look through a window in a period film they are always clean? Why are we always in these perceived golden tones of the past? Simple things like that make an enormous difference. There's almost this revisionist idea that it was always a better time than we live in now. With Carol (2015), we did everything possible to not over-romanticize the period. This was a world that was coming out of World War II, where there was a great deal of insecurity. Todd Haynes wanted to reference the pre-Eisenhower period in naturalistic way. People refer to "Carol" as a melodrama, but Todd likes to think of it as a period love story. We looked at the time not through its cinema, but through its photographers that documented New York. We looked at mid-century photographers like Ruth Orkin, Esther Bubley, Helen Levitt and Vivian Maier. These women were documenting an urban landscape as they wavered between photojournalism and art photography. We also looked at Saul Leiter. He was a street photographer, but he was more like a painter. Leiter's photographs created layered compositions that are obscured by abstractions, subjects were only partially visible as his images were filled with found objects, textures and reflections. By using Leiter's approach, we are not only creating a representational view of the world, but a psychological one. The characters are hidden, but we still see them through sensual textures of reflections, weather and foggy car windows. For example, by seeing Therese (Rooney Mara) in doorways, partially viewed through windows and reflections, it's like she's just coming into focus on her own identity and her ability to form a relationship out of love. It's a visual way of showing her amorous mind - a way of letting us into her interior world. (...) The mid-century photographers were also experimenting with color photography at this time and we wanted to reference ektachrome still film stock. With early ektachrome, there wasn't a full range of color spectrum as is there is today. Ektachrome had a cooler rendition: the colors were less saturated and tended towards magentas, greens and cooler hues, so we referenced that feeling. [2015]
7[on Carol (2015)] We opted to shoot in 16mm. We wanted to reference the photographic representation of a different era. They can recreate grain digitally now, but it's pixel-fixated. It doesn't have this anthropomorphic quality in which the grain structure in each frame is changing. The actual physical grain of film adds another expressive layer that is impacting the surface of the characters' emotional being. It has to do with how film captures movement and exposure in the frame - finer grain for highlights and larger grain for lower light areas - that gives a certain emotionality to the image that feels more human. I really believe with "Carol" that people would feel something different than if I had shot it digitally. The other important thing for me with film over the digital is the way color is portrayed. For example, if I have a cool window and warmer lights inside in the digital world they don't mix the way they do in film. With film grain, there's a crossover and contamination between warm and cool colors that I don't find digitally. Digital lacks a sense of depth in color separation the way it does in film. In film, there's these three layers, R,G,B. For me, it's almost like an etching where the light is eating into the negative when it's developed, and even though it is microscopic, it gives a depth to the image that I always feel is lacking digitally. [2015]
8The conceit with Carol (2015) was to reach for naturalism, from shooting almost entirely on location to the stitching in Cate Blanchett's clothes. This approach was different than what Todd [director Todd Haynes] and I were reaching for with Far from Heaven (2002). That was a Sirkian look of the fifties, a world of artifice and manufactured expressionism, which is an entirely different approach to lighting...[2015]
9My gaffer and myself were the only people old enough working on I'm Not There. (2007) that were around in the late 60s and 70s. So the references that the director Todd Haynes was referencing, he understood, but we actually lived it [laughs]. I went to art school in New York at the time, so I was very much in that world. But the other aspect of "I'm Not There" that was engaging for me was that we referenced the independent or European cinema of the 60s and 70s, of the Godard's and early New Wave films like Breathless (1960) and My Life to Live (1962). And later from the Neo-realists to directors like Fellini that were breaking away from Neo-realism and reality towards more subjective, personal cinema. So we actually, literally, referenced that specifically. The scene where Cate Blanchett is one evolution of Bob Dylan who's trying to escape his stardom and fame, and his fans, and the responsibilities that come with being a rock star references the scene in (1963) where Mastroianni is escaping, or trying to find his next film and feels the pressure of his creative process and things that are being imposed on him. Todd referenced not only the world that Dylan was living in, and how he influenced culture, but also how culture was influencing Dylan through cinema, through the politics of the Vietnam War. So these were all elements in the film that underline the storytelling, because how do you tell a story of a mythological story like Dylan?[2013]
10The one thing that a director like Todd Haynes has said about me, is that I don't fall back on one style. That I try to reinterpret the imagery through the storytelling, through the script of what makes that script unique in itself. And I think that partly comes out of art school because I studied different forms, and thinking about how different movements in the art world created whatever they did. And so I understood that, or tried to understand that images are created out of a certain political, social, and even economic means. So for me, what's fun is how I reinvest my ideas through the script, or through the storytelling, to try and find its own language.[2013]
#Fact
1Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) since 1994.

Cinematographer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
A Prairie Home Companion2006as Ed Lachman
Stryker2004
Cell Stories2004Documentary short
Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease2003Video documentary
Far from Heaven2002director of photography
Ken Park2002as Ed Lachman, photography
S1m0ne2002
Sweet November2001
Erin Brockovich2000as Ed Lachman
The Virgin Suicides1999
The Limey1999as Ed Lachman
Why Do Fools Fall in Love1998as Ed Lachman
Selena1997
Touch1997as Ed Lachman
My Family1995
Horse Opera1993TV Movie
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey1993Documentary as Ed Lachman
Tribeca1993TV Series director of photography - 1 episode
My New Gun1992
Light Sleeper1992as Ed Lachman
Soldiers of Music1991Documentary
London Kills Me1991
Mississippi Masala1991
Catchfire1990director of photography - as Ed Lachman
The Local Stigmatic1990as Ed Lachman
Karajan in Salzburg1988TV Special cinematography by
Less Than Zero1987director of photography
A Gathering of Old Men1987TV Movie director of photography
Making Mr. Right1987
El día que me quieras1986
True Stories1986as Ed Lachman
Mother Teresa1986Documentary
The Little Sister1986director of photography - as Ed Lachman
Stripper1986Documentary
The Look1985Documentary as Ed Lachman
Ornette: Made in America1985Documentary
Heart of the Garden1985
Tokyo-Ga1985Documentary
Desperately Seeking Susan1985director of photography
R.A.B.L.1985Short
I played It for You1984Documentary as Ed Lachman
The Last Trip to Harrisburg1984Short as Ed Lachman
In Our Hands1984Documentary
Portfolio1983
Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph1983Documentary short
Report from Hollywood1982Documentary
Les petites guerres1982
Say Amen, Somebody1982Documentary
Lightning Over Water1980Documentary
Union City1980
Wings of Ash: A Dramatization of the Life of Antonin Artaud1978Short
La Soufrière - Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe1977Documentary short as Ed Lachman
False Face1977director of photography - as Edward Lachman Jr.
The Lords of Flatbush1974
Wonderstruck2017post-production
Wiener-Dog2016director of photography
Don't Blink - Robert Frank2015Documentary
Carol2015
Cathedrals of Culture2014Documentary segment "The Salk Institute", as Ed Lachman
Six by Sondheim2013TV Movie documentary segment "'I'm Still Here'", as Ed Lachman
Paradies: Hoffnung2013
Dark Blood2012
Paradies: Glaube2012
Paradies: Liebe2012as Ed Lachman
Mildred Pierce2011TV Mini-Series director of photography - 5 episodes
Howl2010director of photography
Collapse2009/IIDocumentary as Ed Lachman
Life During Wartime2009
I'm Not There.2007
Import Export2007
Hounddog2007director of photography - as Ed Lachman
The Music of Regret2006Short

Camera Department

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live2007TV Series cinematographer - 1 episode
Dr. T & the Women2000director of photography: desert unit - as Ed Lachman
2000 Jahre Christentum1999TV Series second camera operator - 1 episode
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey1993Documentary director of photography: "Clara Rockmore" concert - as Ed Lachman
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt1990Documentary additional photographer
Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll1987Documentary camera operator: documentary - as Ed Lachman / director of photography: concert footage
Insignificance1985additional camera operator: New York - as Ed Lachman
Body Rock1984additional photographer - as Ed Lachman
She Dances Alone1981additional photographer - as Ed Lachman
They All Laughed1981camera operator - as Ed Lachman
Huie's Predigt1981TV Movie documentary second camera - as Ed Lachmann
Last Embrace1979additional photographer - as Ed Lachman
King of the Gypsies1978collaborating director of photography
The American Friend1977assistant camera
Stroszek1977camera II - as Ed Lachman
How much Wood would a Woodchuck chuck... - Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache1976TV Movie documentary assistant camera - as Ed Lachman
Christo's Valley Curtain1974Documentary short additional photography

Director

TitleYearStatusCharacter
In the Hearts of Africa2010Documentary
Life for a Child2008Documentary short
Cell Stories2004Documentary short
Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease2003Video documentary as Ed Lachman
Ken Park2002as Ed Lachman
Songs for Drella1990Video
Red Hot and Blue1990TV Movie segment "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye"
Imagining America1989TV Movie episode "Get Your Kicks on Route 66"
The Last Trip to Harrisburg1984Short as Ed Lachman
Report from Hollywood1982Documentary

Producer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Cathedrals of Culture2014Documentary consulting story producer - segment "The Salk Institute", as Ed Lachman
Report from Hollywood1982Documentary producer
Shut Up... I'm Crying1970Short associate producer

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Moonlight Mile2002Photographer (as Ed Lachman)

Assistant Director

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Stroszek1977assistant director - as Ed Lachman

Thanks

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Side by Side2012Documentary special thanks
Abendlied2009Short thanks

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The 88th Annual Academy Awards2016TV SpecialHimself - Nominee: Best Cinematography
31st Film Independent Spirit Awards2016TV MovieHimself - Winner (as Ed Lachman)
Sluizer Speaks2014DocumentaryHimself
Side by Side Extra: Volume Three2014DocumentaryHimself
Días de cine2012TV SeriesHimself
Turning Darkness Into Light: The Making of 'Hounddog'2008Video documentary shortHimself
Art in the Twenty-First Century2007TV Series documentaryHimself
Stryker Diary2006Video documentary short
Final 242006TV Series documentaryHimself - Cinematographer, Dark Blood
Anatomy of a Scene2001TV Series documentaryHimself
Report from Hollywood1982DocumentaryHimself
Lightning Over Water1980DocumentaryHimself

Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2016EDA AwardAlliance of Women Film JournalistsBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2016Best Cinematography AwardBritish Society of CinematographersBest Cinematography in a Feature FilmCarol (2015)
2016Independent Spirit AwardIndependent Spirit AwardsBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2016INOCAInternational Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)Best CinematographyCarol (2015)
2016ALFS AwardLondon Critics Circle Film AwardsTechnical Achievement of the YearCarol (2015)
2016NSFC AwardNational Society of Film Critics Awards, USABest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2015Austin Film Critics AwardAustin Film Critics AssociationBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2015BSFC AwardBoston Society of Film Critics AwardsBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2015Golden FrogCamerimageMain CompetitionCarol (2015)
2015ICP AwardIndiewire Critics' PollBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2015Marburg Camera AwardMarburg Camera Award
2015NYFCC AwardNew York Film Critics Circle AwardsBest CinematographerCarol (2015)
2013Lancia Celebration of Lives AwardBiografilm Festival
2013Faith Hubley Memorial AwardProvincetown International Film Festival
2011Cinematographer-Director Duo AwardCamerimage
2007Bronze FrogCamerimageMain CompetitionI'm Not There. (2007)
2003CFCA AwardChicago Film Critics Association AwardsBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2003Chlotrudis AwardChlotrudis AwardsBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2003Audience AwardChlotrudis AwardsBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2003Visionary AwardChlotrudis Awards
2003DFWFCA AwardDallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association AwardsBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2003FFCC AwardFlorida Film Critics Circle AwardsBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2003Gold Derby AwardGold Derby AwardsCinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2003Independent Spirit AwardIndependent Spirit AwardsBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2003IOMAItalian Online Movie Awards (IOMA)Best Cinematography (Miglior fotografia)Far from Heaven (2002)
2003NSFC AwardNational Society of Film Critics Awards, USABest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2003OFTA Film AwardOnline Film & Television AssociationBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2003OFCS AwardOnline Film Critics Society AwardsBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2002BSFC AwardBoston Society of Film Critics AwardsBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2002Silver FrogCamerimageFar from Heaven (2002)
2002LAFCA AwardLos Angeles Film Critics Association AwardsBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2002NYFCC AwardNew York Film Critics Circle AwardsBest CinematographerFar from Heaven (2002)
2002NYFCO AwardNew York Film Critics, OnlineBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2002Seattle Film Critics AwardSeattle Film Critics AwardsBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2002Golden OsellaVenice Film FestivalFar from Heaven (2002)
2002VVFP AwardVillage Voice Film PollBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
1994Excellence in Cinematography AwardHawaii International Film Festival
1988Golden Precolumbian CircleBogota Film FestivalBest CinematographyEl día que me quieras (1986)

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2016OscarAcademy Awards, USABest Achievement in CinematographyCarol (2015)
2016BAFTA Film AwardBAFTA AwardsBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2016ASC AwardAmerican Society of Cinematographers, USAOutstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical ReleasesCarol (2015)
2016Critics Choice AwardBroadcast Film Critics Association AwardsBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2016Chlotrudis AwardChlotrudis AwardsBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2016GFCA AwardGeorgia Film Critics Association (GFCA)Best CinematographyCarol (2015)
2016Gold Derby AwardGold Derby AwardsCinematographyCarol (2015)
2016OFTA Film AwardOnline Film & Television AssociationBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2016Seattle Film Critics AwardSeattle Film Critics AwardsBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2015ACCAAwards Circuit Community AwardsBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2015CFCA AwardChicago Film Critics Association AwardsBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2015OFCS AwardOnline Film Critics Society AwardsBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2015SFFCC AwardSan Francisco Film Critics CircleBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2015WAFCA AwardWashington DC Area Film Critics Association AwardsBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2014Best 3D Documentary FilmCamerimageCathedrals of Culture (2014)
2013Austrian Film AwardAustrian Film Award, ATBest Cinematography (Beste Kamera)Paradies: Liebe (2012)
2012ASC AwardAmerican Society of Cinematographers, USAOutstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Motion Picture/Miniseries TelevisionMildred Pierce (2011)
2011Primetime EmmyPrimetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or MovieMildred Pierce (2011)
2007Golden FrogCamerimageMain CompetitionI'm Not There. (2007)
2005Jury AwardTribeca Film FestivalBest Documentary ShortCell Stories (2004)
2003OscarAcademy Awards, USABest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2003ASC AwardAmerican Society of Cinematographers, USAOutstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical ReleasesFar from Heaven (2002)
2003Daring Digital AwardJeonju Film FestivalDigital SpectrumKen Park (2002)
2003PFCS AwardPhoenix Film Critics Society AwardsBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2003Golden Satellite AwardSatellite AwardsBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2002ACCAAwards Circuit Community AwardsBest Achievement in CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)
2002Golden FrogCamerimageFar from Heaven (2002)
2002Golden SpikeValladolid International Film FestivalKen Park (2002)
2000Sierra AwardLas Vegas Film Critics Society AwardsBest CinematographyThe Virgin Suicides (1999)
1993Independent Spirit AwardIndependent Spirit AwardsBest CinematographyLight Sleeper (1992)
1987Independent Spirit AwardIndependent Spirit AwardsBest CinematographyTrue Stories (1986)

2nd Place Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2016ICS AwardInternational Cinephile Society AwardsBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2015DFWFCA AwardDallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association AwardsBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2015FFCC AwardFlorida Film Critics Circle AwardsBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2015LAFCA AwardLos Angeles Film Critics Association AwardsBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2015SLFCA AwardSt. Louis Film Critics Association, USBest CinematographyCarol (2015)
2003COFCA AwardCentral Ohio Film Critics AssociationBest CinematographyFar from Heaven (2002)

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