My artist blog this week is on Robert Yeoman, but will also contain information about Wes Anderson, as Robert Yeoman and Wes Anderson are collaborators.
Hotel Chevalier
Yeoman, born in 1951, started out his cinematography career not knowing what he wanted to do in life, but after joining a film club in college, he became interested in foreign films and documentaries. He then went to USC to get involved in documentaries and film school. Yeoman has been a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) since 2001 and has a MFA from the University of Sourthern California School of Cinematic Arts.
A Life Aquatic
Robert Yeoman began shooting for independent films - including the film Drugstore Cowboy, for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography. He's recently worked on the movies Whip It and Yes Man. Yeoman has worked on every Wes Anderson film as the cinematographer or director of photography.
While Wes Anderson's films are well known for his witty dialogue and cynical petty grievances on a path to understanding life/meaning, it is the camera eye and shots that so often captures the audience. Each element for each scene is carefully considered - using camera angles and long or wide shots to represent something more meaningful and conceptual. The selection of lenses and camera movements are as critical to conveying Anderson's humanist worldview as his casting, dialogue, music and production design. For example, sometimes instead of using a pan shot, Anderson and Yeoman use dolly (on a track) shots because there is a certain weight that offsets the strange childish comedic atmosphere in his narratives.
The Darjeeling Limited
Yeoman is a very careful and amazing cinematographer. Hotel Chevalier, while short, is one of my favorite films just for the sheer aesthetic beauty of it. I don’t even have to feel guilty because there is always a deeper concept looming behind the lens. This is already obvious through the stills taken from Anderson’s movies. I look forward to seeing more work that Yeoman creates!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005934/
http://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/yeoman.htm
my own experience
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