Edward Lachman

Edward Lachman (b. 31 March 1948) is an award-winning [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005767/awards IMDB: Edward Lachman - Awards] ] American cinematographer. Lachman is mostly associated with the American independent film movement, and has served as director of photography on films by Todd Haynes (including "Far From Heaven", which earned Lachman an Academy Award nomination [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005767/awards IMDB: Edward Lachman - Awards] ] ) and Steven Soderbergh. Lachman has also worked on several non-American films, including two documentaries by Wim Wenders (one of which, "Lightning Over Water", was shot in the United States).

In 2002, Lachman co-directed the controversial "Ken Park" with Larry Clark.

Biography

Lachman was born in 1948 in Morristown, New Jersey [ [http://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/lachman.htm Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers: Edward Lachman] ] ; he received a BA from Harvard University in 1965 and studied in France at the University of Tours before pursuing a BFA in painting at Ohio University [ [http://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/lachman.htm Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers: Edward Lachman] ] .

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