cinematographer

especially British, cin·e·ma·tog·ra·phist

[sin-uh-muh-tog-ruh-fer]

noun

1. a person whose profession is video photography, especially for feature-length movies.

2. director of photography.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cinematographer¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; cinematograph + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Morgan and her cinematographer Nick Matthews make the location fun to look at, with a saturated color palette and clever camera movements.

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"They're built to ensnare sharks or fish and they're deadly effective, but sadly completely indiscriminate," says Dean Cropp who, as a cinematographer and ocean explorer, has been documenting these nets for years.

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Collaborating with cinematographer Maceo Bishop, Safdie developed an unusual look for the film, meant to evoke the smeared visual style of the era of early digital video covered by the film.

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The island, given an appropriately sickly, uninviting sheen by cinematographer Mathias Herndl, clearly wasn’t big enough for all of these new-world experimenters.

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For example, he agreed with cinematographer Patrick Scola that shooting on 16mm film would add realism to a story taking place in a realm of artificiality.

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