Vittorio Storaro: Writing with Light: Volume 1: The Light | 
 enlarge | Author: Vittorio Storaro
Publisher: Aperture
Category: Book
Buy New: $1,500.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1305135
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Bilingual
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 312
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.3
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 12.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1931788030
Dewey Decimal Number: 791
EAN: 9781931788038
ASIN: 1931788030
Publication Date: July 17, 2002
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Product Description
Three-Time Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro’s Stunning Book On His Work In Such Films As Apocalypse Now, Dick Tracy, and The Last Emperor
Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro has worked with some of the most extraordinary film directors of our time—including Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Warren Beatty, and Carlos Saura—to make some of the most breathtaking films of our time. Over the course of his remarkable thirty-five-year career, Storaro has brought visual life to many of the films that have become centerpieces of contemporary cinema.
Inspired by a gamut of sources, from Italian Renaissance paintings to Francis Bacon to esoteric primitive art to Tarzan comics, Storaro’s visual palette is as diverse as his films are eclectic and gorgeous. Now, for the first time, this master of cinematography outlines his personal philosophy of light, color, and the elements in an unprecedented three-volume opus, Writing with Light. In this first volume, Storaro considers the use of light, manifesting his ideas through his own writing, related film stills, a stunning selection of paintings, and a vast array of quotations from a myriad of philosophers. Together, these components interweave to express Storaro’s unique, philosophical, and powerful vision.
Storaro’s films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, Reds, One from the Heart, Tucker, Dick Tracy, The Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha, Tango, Bulworth, Goya in Bordeaux, and Dune.
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 A book that should have been much better June 19, 2004
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Storaro always got the finest looking prints and lab work,
and his films are stunning ,But the reproductions in this book
look like as bad as the video for "1900",They are printed on
nice paper in a nice hardcover,but the source for these images
is pretty poor,
I would love to see what a 4000 line scanned capture from
the original source would look like printed the same way.
But that would mean getting Studios like Paramount involved,
Which might mean that the book never came out.Since they
can't even be trusted to release his best work on dvd.It seems odd that Storaro who seems to demand such high Quality
from his labs,would Ok such poor reprints of his films. Still with so many of his films unavailable on dvd,This Book
is still worth getting.
 From shadow and penumbra to multiform light July 26, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Writing With Light is a brilliant coffee-table collection of masterful photograph capturing the essence of light, from shadow and penumbra to multiform light, the sun, the moon, and the infinite. The bilingual text in English and Italian fully complements the vivid images, ranging from art, to scenery, to still frames from movies. Writing With Light is an unforgettable visual celebration and one which is especially commended to personal, profess-ional, academic, and community library collections.
A beautiful book and a must have! February 25, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
for any aspiring cameramen, this is a must have book, Storaro's work is both visually stunning and inspiring, and it is about time that a book celebrating the works of this great master of cinematography is made available.
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