{"id":17604,"date":"2016-01-04T01:03:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T01:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17604"},"modified":"2016-01-04T01:03:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T01:03:24","slug":"vilmos-zsigmond-1930-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/01\/04\/vilmos-zsigmond-1930-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Vilmos Zsigmond, 1930\u20132016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vz1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/vz1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>McCabe &amp; Mrs Miller (1971).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Watch enough films from the 1970s and you&#8217;ll eventually run across something photographed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2016\/jan\/03\/vilmos-zsigmond-oscar-cinematographer-dies-close-encounters\" target=\"_blank\">Vilmos Zsigmond<\/a>. And if you were watching on TV, video or even DVD there&#8217;s a good chance that his subtle grading of light and shade would have been spoiled or, in low-light scenes, reduced to murk. (TV used to be the worst for also cropping widescreen films.) Screengrabs on a web page don&#8217;t do his work any justice either but that can&#8217;t be helped. Happily, many of these films are now available in high-definition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vz2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/vz2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Images (1972).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vz3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/vz3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Deliverance (1972).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vz4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/vz4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Long Goodbye (1973).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vz5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/vz5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Deer Hunter (1978).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vz6.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/vz6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Heaven&#8217;s Gate (1980).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vz7.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/vz7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Heaven&#8217;s Gate (1980).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vz8.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/vz8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Heaven&#8217;s Gate (1980).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCabe &amp; Mrs Miller (1971). Watch enough films from the 1970s and you&#8217;ll eventually run across something photographed by Vilmos Zsigmond. And if you were watching on TV, video or even DVD there&#8217;s a good chance that his subtle grading of light and shade would have been spoiled or, in low-light scenes, reduced to murk. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/01\/04\/vilmos-zsigmond-1930-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vilmos Zsigmond, 1930\u20132016&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[167,926],"class_list":["post-17604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-obituaries","tag-vilmos-zsigmond"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4zW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}