Gordon Willis

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Gordon Hugh Willis Jr ASC May 28 1931 May 18 2014 was an American cinematographer He is best known for his work on Francis Ford Coppolas The Godfather series as well as Woody Allens Annie Hall and Manhattan Fellow cinematographer William Fraker called Williss work a milestone in visual storytelling while one critic suggested that Willis defined the cinematic look of the 1970s sophisticated compositions in which bolts of light and black put the decades moral ambiguities into stark relief When the International Cinematographers Guild conducted a survey in 2003 they placed Willis among the ten most influential cinematographers in history