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Stan,
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Much easier.
Is it laziness or ignorance?
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Dec 27, 10:01 PM EST
Oscar winning cameraman Haskell Wexler dies at 93
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Haskell Wexler, one of Hollywood's most famous and honored
cinematographers and one whose innovative approach helped him win Oscars for
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and the Woody Guthrie biopic "Bound for
Glory," died Sunday. He was 93.
Wexler died peacefully in his sleep, his son, Oscar-nominated sound man Jeff
Wexler, told The Associated Press.
A liberal activist, Wexler photographed some of the most socially relevant and
influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Jane Fonda-Jon Voight
anti-war classic, "Coming Home," the Sidney Poitier-Rod Steiger racial drama
"In the Heat of the Night" and the Oscar-winning adaptation of Ken Kesey's "One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
He was also the rare cinematographer known enough to the general public to
receive a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
"He was a wonderful father. I owe most of who I am to his wisdom and guidance,"
said his son, nominated for Oscars himself for "Independence Day" and "The Last
Samurai."
"Even in an industry where, when you're working on a movie, there is not much
else you can do, he was always there for me," Jeff Wexler said.
Fonda praised Wexler on her Twitter account.
"The brilliant, beloved Oscar-winning cinematographer, Haskell Wexler has died.
He was my friend. He filmed 'Coming Home' and a documentary with me and Tom
Hayden in North Vietnam in 1973. He was brave & gorgeous and I loved him," she
wrote.
When the elder Wexler wasn't working on big-budget studio fare, he traveled the
world directing and photographing documentaries for favorite causes.
His 1969 "Medium Cool" mixed documentary and dramatic elements, telling the
story of a fictional television photographer (Robert Forster) who covers the
violence between Chicago police and protesters at the 1968 Democratic National
Convention. The real-life unrest was filmed on the spot for the movie, and its
"cinema verite" approach was closely studied by aspiring filmmakers.
"I was under surveillance for the entire seven weeks I was in Chicago, by the
police, the Army and the Secret Service," Wexler once told a reporter.
Throughout his career, Wexler was noted for his versatile and intuitive
approach.
For "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," the last film to receive an Oscar for
best black and white cinematography, he used hand-held cameras to capture the
tension of the tirades between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. For "In the
Heat of the Night," he put silks over the tops of sets and aimed lights at
their centers. His aim was to contribute to the tension between Poitier's
big-city black detective and Steiger's Southern white lawman.
As visual consultant on George Lucas' "American Graffiti," he hosed down the
streets to achieve a moody, reflective style. He helped give Terence Malick's
"Days of Heaven" a hazy, dreamlike atmosphere.
Wexler was also noted for his clashes with directors. Francis Ford Coppola
fired him during the filming of "The Conversation." Milos Forman dropped him
during the filming of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Wexler shared the
cinematography credit with Bill Butler.
"I don't think there's a movie I've been on that I didn't think I could direct
better," he said in 2005.
For one of his documentaries, 2006's "Who Needs Sleep?" Wexler turned his
attention to the film industry itself, decrying the long hours endured by
Hollywood set workers. It was inspired by the death of a worker who fell asleep
driving his car after a 19-hour stint on a movie set.
Wexler's other documentaries include: "The Bus," about the Freedom Riders who
risked their lives to integrate the South in the 1960s; "Latino," which
examined American policy in Nicaragua; "Interviews with My Lai Veterans," which
shined a light on survivors of U.S. brutality in Vietnam; and "Brazil: Report
on Torture."
Born into a well-to-do Chicago family on Feb. 6, 1922, Wexler was still in
grade school when he went to work for a photographer involved in the
trade-union movement. At age 12, he recorded his family's vacation in
Mussolini's Italy with his family's home-movie camera.
His childhood friends included a fellow lifelong rebel: Publisher Barney
Rosset, who helped bring down censorship laws by publishing unexpurgated
editions of D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and Henry Miller's
"Tropic of Cancer."
Wexler left the University of California, Berkeley, 18 months into his studies
to enlist in the Merchant Marine as the U.S. was about to enter World War II.
After his ship was torpedoed off the tip of South Africa, Wexler helped some of
the sailors join him in a lifeboat.
Returning to Chicago, he made films for the United Electrical Workers Union
before moving to Hollywood in 1960, where he made his feature debut in 1963 on
Elia Kazan's immigrant drama "America, America." It brought instant acclaim and
steady work.
A photographer on dozens of feature films, dozens more documentaries and scores
of TV commercials, Wexler remained active for decades. At age 89, he received
an Emmy nomination as the cameraman for Billy Crystal's "61(asterisk)," the HBO
film about Roger Maris' record-setting home run season. A few years earlier,
Wexler himself was the subject of a documentary, "Tell Them Who You Are,"
directed by another of his sons, Mark Wexler.
His last film credit, the biopic "To Begin the World Over Again: The Life of
Thomas Paine," is in postproduction, according to the Internet Movie Database.
"Movies are a voyeuristic experience," he once said of the attraction to the
work. "You have to make the audience feel like they are peeking through a
keyhole. I think of myself as the audience. Then I use light, framing and
motion to create a focal point."
In addition to his sons, Wexler is survived by a daughter, Kathy Wexler, and
his wife, Rita Taggart.
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