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“I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp.”

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Vilmos Zsigmond

Vilmos Zsigmond was an accomplished cinematographer, best known for his work on Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver'. His distinctive style and innovative techniques have had a profound impact on the art of cinematography. more

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“When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography.”

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“In fact, I probably learned more about photography from studying black-and-white photography in those magazines [Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine] than I did from watching movies here. That's the truth.”

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“Mexican cinematographers Gabriel Figueroa and Emilio Fernandez were students of both Sergei Eisenstein and Toland. Their exteriors and lighting were gorgeous. And the films Ingmar Bergman did with Sven Nykvist were exceptional.”

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“These days that wouldn't happen - waiting for the light to be exactly right. Because it takes time and time is money. And with these big productions with expensive actors, you just don't have the time to get every shot exactly right.”

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“I should mention Vittorio Storaro, who was Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematographer. You watch those films and they are exceptional.”

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“More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.”

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“The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.”

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“The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.”

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“Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.”

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“When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.”

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