EDWARD LACHMAN ASC

Born: 31 March 1948, Morristown, New Jersey, USA.

Education: Harvard University [BA, 1965]; University of Tours [French], France; Ohio University, Athens, Ohio [BFA Painting, 1969].

Career: Got his break into films from dir Werner Herzog.

Ph commercials dir by Paul Meijer [for 'Mazda Xedos', 'Coebergh' & 'Sony'], Wim Ubachs [for 'Rabobank'], Hans Jonkers [for 'Nuts' (cph)], Michael Haussman [for 'Levi's'], Traktor [for 'Diesel'], Wim Wenders [for 'Ariston'], Dante Ariola, a.o.

Also active as director of doc's, tv-specials and music videos [a: Tina Turner, Elvis Costello, a.o.]. Made a photo novel [roman-photo], 'Chausses trappes' [1981; with Elieba Levine].

Member of the ASC since 1994.

Awards: Independent Spirit Award nom [1987] for 'True Stories'; Independent Spirit Award nom [1993] for 'Light Sleeper'; Hawaii FF Cinematography Award [1994]; Las Vegas Film Critics 'Sierra Award' nom [2000] for 'The Virgin Suicides'; Venice FF 'Outstanding Individual Contribution' [2002], LAFCA Award [2002], NYFCC Award [2002], BSFC Award [2002], Camerimage 'Silver Frog' [2002], 'Oscar' AA nom [2002], ASC Award nom [2002], CFCA Award [2003] & Independent Spirit Award [2003] for 'Far from Heaven'; Plus Camerimage 'Bronze Frog' Award [2007] for 'I'm Not There'; Plus Camerimage 'Cinematographer-Director Duo Award' [2011; with dir Todd Haynes]; ASC TV Award nom [2011] for 'Mildred Pierce'.

FEATURE FILMS

1972	The Lords of Flatbush [Stephen F. Verona & Martin Davidson] c; cph: Joseph Mangine
1976	Scalpel/False Face [John Grissmer] c
1976	Stroszek [Werner Herzog] c; 2uc (+ asst dir); ph: Thomas Mauch
1978	King of the Gypsies [Frank Pierson] c; collab ph; ph: Sven Nykvist
1978	Last Embrace [Jonathan Demme] c; co-addph; ph: Tak Fujimoto
1979	Union City [Mark Reichert] c
1979	Blank Generation [Ulli Lommel] c
1981	She Dances Alone [Robert Dornhelm] c; addph; ph: Karl Kofler
1981	Al houroub al saghira/Les petites guerres/Little Wars [Maroun Baghdadi] c; cph: Heinz Hölscher
1984	Body Rock [Marcelo Epstein] c; co-addph New York; ph: Robby Müller
1984	Insignificance [Nicolas Roeg] c; addph New York; ph: Peter Hannan

"Desperately Seeking Susan"

1984	Desperately Seeking Susan [Susan Seidelman] c; addph: Francis Kenny
1985	Heart of the Garden [Lavinia M. Currier] c; 64m; cph: Arthur Ornitz
1985	True Stories [David Byrne] c; 2uc: Tom Sigel, George Tirl, Philip Pfeiffer, Don Reddy, a.o.
1986	Making Mr. Right [Susan Seidelman] c; addph: Francis Kenny
1986	El día que me quieras/The Day You Love Me [Sergio Dow] c
1987	Less Than Zero [Marek Kanievska] c
1990	Let the Music Dance [Pim de la Parra] b&w; cph: Tom Erisman
1990	Mississippi Masala [Mira Nair] c
1991	London Kills Me [Hanif Kureishi] c
1991	Light Sleeper [Paul Schrader] c
1991	My New Gun [Stacy Cochran] c
1993	Dark Blood [George Sluizer] c; unfinished (after actor River Phoenix died on 31 October 1993 with only 11 days of shooting left); thanks to some clever re-editing and the use of Joaquin Phoenix's voice as a next-best-thing substitute, the film will at last screen for an audience on 27 September 2012, when it premieres at the Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht
1994	My Family/Mi familia/Cafe con leche/East L.A. [Gregory Nava] c; river ph: Carroll Ballard; 2uc: Judy Irola
1996	Touch [Paul Schrader] c
1996	Selena [Gregory Nava] s35+s8-to-35mm scope/c; 2uc: James Glennon, Kirk Gardner, Phil Pfeiffer & James L. Carter
1997	Why Do Fools Fall in Love [Gregory Nava] c; addph: Francis Kenny
1998	Dark Horse [Tommy Lee Wallace] announced; status unknown
1998	[Sofia Coppola's] The Virgin Suicides [Sofia Coppola] c
1998	The Limey [Steven Soderbergh] c
1999	Erin Brockovich [Steven Soderbergh] c
1999	Dr. T & the Women [Robert Altman] p/c; desert unit ph; ph: Jan Kiesser
2000	Road Kill [Yûichi Hibi] announced; in 2006 announced with ph Robert Reed Altman; status unknown
2000	Sweet November [Pat O'Connor] c; splinter unit ph: James L. Carter
2000	S1m0ne/Simone [Andrew Niccol] p/c; addph: Derek Glover
2001	Far from Heaven [Todd Haynes] c
2002	Ken Park [Larry Clark & Edward Lachman] c; cph: Larry Clark; digital efx: Reinier van Brummelen
2002	Bad Santa/Badder Santa [Terry Zwigoff] announced as doph, but replaced by Jamie Anderson
2004	Stryker [Noam Gonick] c
2004	Rumor Has It... [Ted Griffin (replaced by Rob Reiner)] replaced 10 days into prod by ph Peter Deming
2005	Import/Export [Ulrich Seidl] s16-35bu/c; cph: Wolfgang Thaler; filmed February & October

With dir Robert Altman

2005	A Prairie Home Companion [Robert Altman] HD (Sony F900)-to-35mm scope/c
2005	The Music of Regret [Laurie Simmons] c; exp mus short/40m
2006	Hounddog [Deborah Kampmeier] c; left prod after 2 weeks; cph: Jim Denault (replaced E. Lachman) & Stephen Thompson (finished prod) (+ addph/gaffer)
2006	I'm Not There [Todd Haynes] s16+s35-to-s35/c; uwph: Geoffroy Beauchemin
2008	The Future/Satisfaction [Miranda July] scheduled to start filming in July, but film was ph by Nikolai von Graevenitz in early 2010

"Life During Wartime"

2008	Life During Wartime [Todd Solondz] RED-to-35mm/c
2009	Collapse [Chris Smith] dv/c; doc/82m; cph: Max Malkin & C. Smith; add cam: Patrick Haley & Joe Picciolo
2009	Howl [Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman] 35mm (+ D-Cinema)/b&w-c; anim + live action
2010	Paradies: Liebe/Paradise: Love [Ulrich Seidl] s16-35bu (+ D-Cinema)/c; cph: Wolfgang Thaler

SHORTS & DOCUMENTARIES

1972	Christo's Valley Curtain [Ellen Giffard, Albert & David Maysles] c; doc/28m; co-addph: Roger Brown & Bill Trautvetter; ph: Albert & David Maysles
1973	Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner/The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner [Werner Herzog] b&w-c; doc/45m; cph: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
1975	How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck... [-Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache] [Werner Herzog] 16mm/c; doc/45m; 3uc; ph: Thomas Mauch
1978	Wings of Ash: Pilot for a Dramatization of the Life of Antonin Artaud [Marcus Reichert] 16mm/c; short/10m
1979	Lightning Over Water/Nick's Movie [Nicholas Ray & Wim Wenders] c; doc/91m; cph: Martin Schäfer & Tom Farrell; + small part
1980	Letzte Reise nach Harrisburg/The Last Trip to Harrisburg/The Blue Train [Udo Kier, Bernd Brummbär & Ed Lachman] 16mm/b&w; short/11m; released 1984
1980	Memories of the Duke [Gary Keys] 16mm/b&w-c; mus doc/81m; ph interview seq; concert footage shot in September 1968 in Mexico by ph ?; expanded version of 'The Mexican Suite' (1972)
1982	Say Amen, Somebody - The Good News Musical [George T. Nierenberg] 16mm/c; doc/100m; cph: Don Lenzer
1982	Split Cherry Tree [Andrei Konchalovsky] 16mm/c; short/24m37s; prod Learning Corporation of America; for HBO-tv
1982	Report from Hollywood [Edward Lachman] c; doc/59m; cph: Mitch Dubin; + prod
1982	In Our Hands [Robert Richter & Stanley Warnow] 16mm/c; doc/90m; cph: Steven Fierberg, Oliver Wood, Thomas Sigel, Richard Leacock, Phil Parmet, Don Lenzer, a.o.
1982	Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph [Bob Eisenhardt] 16mm/c; doc/29m; cph: John Corso, Don Lenzer & Mark Obenhaus
1983	Portfolio/The Look [Robert Guralnick] c; doc/83m; cph: Jimmy Glassberg
1983	Tôkyô-ga/A Tokyo Story [Wim Wenders] 16mm/b&w-c; doc/92m
1984	Docu Drama/I Played It for You [Ronee Blakley] 16mm/c; doc/70m; addph: Wim Wenders
1984	Ornette - Made in America [A Musical Journey] [Shirley Clarke] c; doc/85m; addph: Baird Bryant, Hilary Harris, John Heller & Robert Elfstrom
1985	Stripper [Jerome Gary] c; doc/90m; addph: Haskell Wexler & David Myers
1985	Mother Teresa [Ann & Jeanette Petrie] 16mm-35bu/c; doc/83m; cph: Sandi Sissel; addph: Mitch Dubin, Peter Sturken, a.o.; film took 5 years to make
1985	RABL [Patrice M. Regnier] b&w-c; exp short (anim + dance)/8m; RABL stands for Regnier/Allen/Burwell/Lachman
1986	Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll [Taylor Hackford] 35mm+s16-to-35mm/c; concert film/121m; concert 2uc (+ co-c.op doc); ph: Oliver Stapleton
1987	Karajan in Salzburg/Von Karajan's Salzburg [Deborah Dickson, Peter Gelb & Susan Frömke] c; doc/90m; ep PBS-tv series 'Great Performances'
1989	Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt [Robert Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman] c; doc/75m; co-addph; ph: Dyanna Taylor & Jean de Segonzac
1989	The Local Stigmatic [David F. Wheeler] 16mm/c; short/56m
1989	Fine Young Cannibals [- The Concert] [- Live at the Paramount] [Peter Care] c; concert film/60m
1990	Soldiers of Music: Rostropovich Returns to Russia [Bob Eisenhardt, Susan Frömke, Peter Gelb & Albert Maysles] c; doc/88m; cph: Wolfgang Becker, Albert Maysles & Martin Schaer
1990	Red Hot + Blue [seg #18 (4m) 'Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye' dir by Ed Lachman; a: Annie Lennox] b&w-c/V; mus comp/111m; other ph: Tom Sigel, Jacek Laskus, Declan Quinn, a.o.; this film (18 music videos + art breaks) accompanied the comp album (20 tracks) from the Red Hot Organization (an AIDS Benefit project); also an ABC-tv special
1992	Let's Ask the Experts [Michael Moore] 16mm/c; ?/3m
1993	Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey [Steven Martin] b&w-c; doc/83m; ph 'Clara Rockmore' concert; ph: Frank DeMarco
1999	Gott und die Beladenen/2000 Jahre Christentum - Neue Welten/The Lord and the Laden [Werner Herzog] v/c; doc/43m; 2uc; ph: Jorge Vignati
2003	[Carmen Electra's] Aerobic Striptease [Edward Lachman] V/c; 53m; volume 1 of 'Aerobic Striptease'-series
2004	Street Stories/Cell Stories [Edward Lachman] series of 7 exp shorts (51s to 2m06s): 'Wrong Number', 'Fiona', 'OTB', 'Taxi', 'Dog', 'Bear' & 'Artist'; ph with the Motorola V710 camera phone for the Motorola website
2010	In the Hearts of Africa [Ed Lachman] b&w-c; doc/36m37s; cph: Mark Gyori; follow-up to 'Life for a Child'; prod by Eli Lilly and Company to support the International Diabetes Federation

TELEVISION

1976	La Soufrière [- Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe] [Werner Herzog] doc/31m/16mm; cph: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
1980	Huies Sermon/Huie's Predigt [Werner Herzog] doc/43m/16mm; 2uc; ph: Thomas Mauch
1984	The Little Sister/The Tender Age/Forbidden [Jan Egleson] tvm; ep PBS-tv series 'American Playhouse'
1986	A Gathering of Old Men/Murder on the Bayou/Ein Aufstand alter Männer [Volker Schlöndorff] tvm
1988	That Rhythm... Those Blues [George T. Nierenberg] mus doc/b&w-c/58m/16mm; cph: Francis Kenny, Sandi Sissel, Gary Steele, Don Lenzer & Mitch Dubin; ep PBS-tv series 'American Experience'
1988	Backtrack/Catchfire/Do It the Hard Way [Alan Smithee (= Dennis Hopper)] tvm (USA) & theatres (Europe); aph: Fred M. Waugh

"Get Your Kicks on Route 66"

1989	Imagining America [seg 'Get Your Kicks on Route 66' dir by Ed Lachman] tvm/60m/4 seg; other ph: Kent Wakeford ('This Ain't Bebop' dir by Ralph Bakshi), Matt Mahurin ('Tribe') & Robert Rudis ('Reflections of a Native Son' dir by Mustapha Khan); ep PBS-tv series 'American Playhouse'
1989	Songs for 'Drella: Lou Reed, John Cale [Ed Lachman] concert film/55m; c.op: Sandi Sissel, Paul Cameron, Francis Kenny & Igor Sunara; for PBS-tv
1990	An American Story [Terry Bedford] tvm/60m; addph: Chuck Lofthouse, Mark Trottenberg & Bob Baldwin
1991	Abbado in Berlin: The First Year [Brian Large (concert), Bob Eisenhardt, Peter Gelb & Susan Frömke] mus doc/concert film/120m; cph: Don Lenzer, Dyanna Taylor, Martin Kukula, Daniel Vogel, a.o.; ep PBS-tv series 'Great Performances'
1991	Toonces, the Cat Who Could Drive a Car/Toonces and Friends [John Fortenberry] pilot/30m
1992	Tribeca [ep #1 'The Box' dir by Michael Dinner] 7-part series, 1993; other ph: Ron Fortunato, Stephen McNutt & Rufus Standefer
1992	Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint [Michael Moore] doc/23m; ep PBS-tv series 'P.O.V.'
1992	Rock the Vote [various] variety special/60m; cph: Andrzej Bartkowiak, Robert Leacock, Geoff Schaaf, a.o.; for Fox-tv
1993	Horse Opera [Bob Baldwin] tvm
1993	A Day in the Life of Country Music [exec prod: Ken Kragen] mus special/120m; Fairfax ph; other ph: Daniel Pearl (Dallas), David Connell (Fort Worth), Anghel Decca (Nashville), a.o.; shot on one day (7 May); for CBS-tv
2010	Mildred Pierce [Todd Haynes] 5-part miniseries/s16-to-HD; 2uc: Charles Libin

FILMS & TELEVISION AS CAMERA ASSISTANT/OPERATOR

1969	Woodstock/Woodstock, 3 Days of Peace & Music [Michael Wadleigh; mus doc] c.asst; ph: David Myers, a.o.
1976	Der amerikanische Freund/The American Friend [Wim Wenders] co-c.asst (+ still ph New York); ph: Robby Müller
1978	Hurricane [Jan Troell] c.op; ph: Sven Nykvist
1978	La Luna [Bernardo Bertolucci] co-c.op; ph: Vittorio Storaro
1979	[The Muse Concert:] No Nukes [various] co-c.op Madison Square Garden; ph: Haskell Wexler
1980	They All Laughed [Peter Bogdanovich] c.op; ph: Robby Müller
1982	Legs [Jerrold Freedman; tvm] co-c.op; ph: Allen Daviau

FILMS & TELEVISION AS DIRECTOR

1980	Letzte Reise nach Harrisburg/The Last Trip to Harrisburg/The Blue Train [co-d; + ph] see Shorts & Documentaries
1982	Report from Hollywood [+ prod/cph] see Shorts & Documentaries
1989	Imagining America [seg 'Get Your Kicks on Route 66'; + ph] see Television
1989	Songs for 'Drella: Lou Reed, John Cale [+ ph] see Television
1990	Red Hot + Blue [seg #18 'Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye'; + ph] see Shorts & Documentaries
1999	Ken Park [co-d; + cph] see Films
2003	[Carmen Electra's] Aerobic Striptease [+ ph] see Shorts & Documentaries
2004	Street Stories/Cell Stories [+ ph] see Shorts & Documentaries
2007	Life for a Child [doc/16m] ph: Wolfgang Thaler & Brian Jackson; prod by Eli Lilly and Company and the International Diabetes Federation
2010	In the Hearts of Africa [doc; + cph] see Shorts & Documentaries