{"id":119380,"date":"2018-01-01T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=119380"},"modified":"2017-12-19T16:31:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T21:31:22","slug":"master-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/01\/master-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Master of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>We\u2019re away until January 3, but we\u2019re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2017. Enjoy your holiday!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_110564\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/roger-deakins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110564\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/roger-deakins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/roger-deakins.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/roger-deakins-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/roger-deakins-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-110564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Deakins, 2004, via Buena Vista.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometime in the late nineties, the cinematographer Roger Deakins took a kind of pilgrimage to visit his friend and mentor Conrad \u201cConnie\u201d Hall, who was living in semiretirement on a tiny island off Tahiti. The timing found Deakins visiting the older Hall\u2014a three-time Academy Award winner and sort of tribal elder to directors of photography\u2014as the industry-wide shift toward digital cameras was being met by a renewed nostalgia for film, and Deakins was excited to share how he\u2019d recently remodeled his LA home to include a darkroom. \u201cMy expectations were shattered,\u201d Deakins later wrote, \u201cwhen Conrad pronounced the photochemical process \u2018antiquated.\u2019 \u201d Hall praised the possibilities of digital, telling Deakins he was happy to indulge any \u201ctechnique that might have helped him develop as a visual storyteller.\u201d That was Hall\u2019s guiding mantra, and one the younger artist soon took up: \u201cStory! Story! Story!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/09\/master-light\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Read More &gt;&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his blog, Looking at Light, the revered cinematographer Roger Deakins pulls back the curtain on the industry tricks that have made him 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