Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kaufman is a television cameraman, lanky, easygoing, well liked. Focusing on the hard legs of show girls and the putty faces of comedians is only his job. His life is with Sandy, their two small sons, and with New York City itself. As an amateur still-photographer, Jay loves to roam the city and poke his lenses into the varied faces of his fellow New Yorkers. Sometimes, when startled out of their reveries, they poke back. At home he arranges his photos on the bed and casually plans to publish them in a book...
...klieg lights were used. But the quartz lamps were strong enough to cause some committee members and spectators-and even one TV cameraman-to wear tinted glasses...
...AMERICAN public rarely gets to see agents of its government inflicting violence, even violence in the name of the people. No television cameraman was allowed to cover the carpet bombing of Hanoi. No newspaper picture has ever shown the final gasp of an electric chair victim. When 1000 New York State troopers, sheriff's deputies, and prison guards overran Attica State Prison in September 1971, no photographer was permitted to see police bullets cut down 28 prisoners and 9 of their hostages. As a result, Walter B. Dunbar, then New York's deputy commissioner of corrections, was able to tell...
Reports like these have earned Rivera the reputation of a crusader. They have also brought him unusual freedom. He and Cameraman Martin Berman have separate headquarters away from newsroom hustle in a cluttered basement office known as "Geraldo's Bodega." Rivera simply notifies the station when he has a report ready for broadcast. "Reporters are paid for each appearance on the air," says Rivera. "It is the greatest single cause of TV news mediocrity. It fosters quantity rather than quality...
MOST HOPEFUL SIGN: The cinematography prize for Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman's great cameraman. Hollywood can occasionally recognize production merit that is not ingrown...