The Cinematographer's Voice is a unique exploration of contemporary filmmaking and cinematography. The distillation of more than one-hundred interviews with cinematographers from around the world, and the product of a decade's worth of scholarship, the book is not only a collection of interviews with some of the world's leading cinematographers, but also a panoramic sweep of what image-making means in the era of digital cinema. Frequently, cinematography may seem intimidating as a discipline, the preserve solely of practitioners who have learned, through years of exposure to photographic technology, both the required jargon and background knowledge to comfortably engage with an often-technical field. In our present era of film studies, this is no longer the case. The interviews collected here are informative not only on matters of technique, but also on the ways in which practitioners formulate their methodologies, work with directors, and engage with the many logistical hurdles of visual storytelling. The result is an oral history of the past forty years of filmmaking and the cinematography it has produced.

本書は単なる技術書ではありません。百人を超える撮影監督の魂を編み上げた、映画という「光の言語」の深淵に触れる壮大な記録です。彼らが監督と火花を散らし、唯一無二のイメージを紡ぎ出す思考の軌跡は、一編の文学的ドキュメンタリーとして読者の心に迫ります。 デジタル化の激動を経て映像の本質を問い直す本作は、現場の制約と芸術性が交錯する瞬間の美学を浮き彫りにします。撮影監督たちの「声」に耳を傾けるとき、スクリーンの裏に潜む創造の迷宮が姿を現すでしょう。映画鑑賞をより豊潤で知的な体験へと変えてくれる、情熱に満ちた一冊です。