We're living in an era where a lot of modern cinematography feels flat. There are many contributors to the issue. The ease of digital workflows on projects that shoot fast and cheap (as well as the ...

Replay: Why have films and particularly TV shows got so dark over the last decade or so, and is it a problem? “Why are things so dimly lit today? Can barely see anything.” Such was a comment on a ...

How the ultra clean imagery coming out of the latest cameras makes it easier to make things look grittier. And it works superbly in Joker. It’s not very often that R-rated films about mental health ...

A couple of months ago, silent films might not have seemed impressive to fans of modern cinematography. Silent movies don’t feature huge musical scores, high-quality computer-generated imagery, or ...

“If a museum tried to narrate the entire history of painting, sculpture, or architecture using only work by women,” it wouldn’t be able to, said Ariella Budick in the Financial Times. For most of ...

Something rather strange happens when looking at Paul Strand’s photographs — an odd feeling of having seen them before. And, in many ways, that’s true. Strand’s visual imprint is evident in the way we ...