Harry Stradling Sr., ASC (1902-1970), the very archetype of the Hollywood technique By Marc Salomon, AFC Consultant Member
On the occasion of the screening of Albert Lewin’s The Portrait of Dorian Gray at the Mac-Mahon Cinema in Paris on 2 December 2015, Marc Salomon, Consulting Member of the AFC, reflects upon the careers of one of Hollywood’s master directors of photography of the 1940s and 1950s: Harry Stradling Sr. “Nothing is too difficult because making movies is our job,” he used to say about his work.