Lachman, Edward 1948(?)- (Ed Lachman; Edward Lachman, Jr.)

PERSONAL

Born March 31, 1948 (some sources cite 1946), in Morristown, NJ; son of Edward (a theatre owner and distributor) and Rosabel Lachman. Education: Harvard University, B.A., 1965; Ohio University, B.F.A., painting (summa cum laude), 1969; attended Columbia University and other universities.

Addresses:

Agent—United Talent Agency, 9560 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 500, Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Doug Apatow Agency, 10559 Blythe Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90064-3338.

Career:

Cinematographer, director of photography, photographer for films, director, and producer. Photographer for advertisements. Held seminars at various institutions, including Columbia University, Harvard University, New York University, and Ohio University.

Member:

American Society of Cinematographers, International Photographers Guild (Local 659), International Photographers of the Motion Picture and Television Industries (Local 644).

Awards, Honors:

Club Ribbon, American Film Festival, and Academy Award nomination, both 1974, for Christo's Valley Curtain; awards from the Cannes International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, and New York Film Festival, all 1976, for Stroszek and La Soufriere—Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe (also known as La Soufriere); Feature Film Prize, German Film Festival, and awards from the Cannes International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, and New York Film Festival, 1984, all for Lightning over Water; awards from Cannes International Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, and New York Film Festival, all 1982, for Say Amen, Somebody; Feature Film Award, Cannes International Film Festival, 1984, and awards from the Venice International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, and New York Film Festival, all for Les petites guerres; awards from the Cannes International Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, and New York Film Festival, and Academy Award nomination, best short subject, all 1986, and German Film Prize for Cinematography, 1987, all for Tokyo-ga; Academy Award nomination, best documentary, 1987, for Mother Teresa; Independent Spirit Award nomination, best cinematography, Independent Feature Project/West, 1987, for True Stories; Golden Precolumbian Circle, best cinematography, Bogota Film Festival, 1988, for El dia que me quieras; Independent Spirit Award nomination, best cinematography, 1993, for Light Sleeper; Silver Maile Award, excellence in cinematography award, Hawaii International Film Festival, 1994; Eastman Kodak Award, outstanding achievement in cinematography, 1995; Sierra Award nomination, best cinematography, Las Vegas Film Critics Society, 2000, for The Virgin Suicides; Golden Spike Award nomination (with Larry Clark), Valladolid International Film Festival, 2002, for Ken Park; New York Film Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, Seattle Film Critics Award, Boston Society of Film Critics Award, and Outstanding Individual Contribution Award, Venice International Film Festival, all best cinematography, 2002, and Silver Frog Award and Golden Frog Award nomination, both Camerimage, 2002, Independent Spirit Award, Independent Feature Project/West, Chlotrudis Award, Chicago Film Critics Association Award, Florida Film Critics Circle Award, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award, Online Film Critics Society Award, Academy Award nomination, Golden Satellite Award nomination, International Press Academy, and Phoenix Film Critics Society Award nomination, all best cinematography, and American Society of Cinematographers Award nomination, outstanding achievement in cinematography in theatrical releases, all 2003, all for Far from Heaven.

CREDITS

Film Cinematographer:

Christo's Valley Curtain (documentary), 1974.

(With Joseph Mangine) The Lords of Flatbush, Columbia, 1974.

(With others) Die grosse Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner (documentary; also known as The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner and The Strange Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner), 1974, New Yorker Films, 1976.

(As Edward Lachman, Jr.) False Face (also known as Scalpel), United International Pictures, 1976.

La Soufriere—Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe (also known as La Soufriere and La Soufrier—Waiting for an Inevitable Disaster), New Yorker Films, 1976.

Stroszek, New Yorker Films, 1976.

King of the Gypsies, Paramount, 1978.

Wings of Ash: Pilot for a Dramatization of the Life of Antonin Artaud (short film), Filmworks International, 1978.

Last Embrace, United Artists, 1979.

Blank Generation, 1980.

Union City, Orion/Kinesis, Ltd., 1980.

Les petites guerres (also known as Little Wars and Houroub saghira), 1982.

Report from Hollywood (documentary), 1982.

Split Cherry Tree (short film), 1982.

Portfolio (documentary; also known as The Look), 1983.

Say Amen, Somebody (musical documentary; also known as Say Amen Somebody—The Good News Musical), United Artists Classics, 1983.

Body Rock, New World Pictures, 1984.

(As Ed Lachman) The Last Trip to Harrisburg (short film; also known as Die Letzte Fahrt nach Harrisburg and Letzte Reise nach Harrisburg), 1984.

Lightning over Water (documentary; also known as Nick's Film—Lightning over Water and Nick's Movie), 1984.

Heart of the Garden, 1985.

I Played It for You (documentary), 1985.

Insignificance (also known as She's the Bomb), New Yorker Films, 1985.

Ornette: Made in America (documentary; also known as Ornette: Made in America—A Musical Journey), 1985.

Stripper (documentary), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1985.

Tokyo-ga (documentary; also known as A Tokyo Story), Gray City, 1985.

Mother Teresa (documentary), 1986.

(As Ed Lachman) True Stories, Warner Bros., 1986.

El dia que me quieras (also known as The Day You Love Me), 1986, Columbia, 1988.

Less Than Zero (also known as Abaixo de zero, Al di la di tutti i limiti, Alta nollan, Fagypont alatt, Golpe al sueno americano, Neige sur Beverly Hills, Noll att foerlora, and Unter Null), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1987.

Making Mr. Right, Orion, 1987.

(As Ed Lachman) Catchfire (also known as Backtrack and Do It the Hard Way), LIVE Entertainment, 1989.

Fine Young Cannibals (concert film; also known as Fine Young Cannibals—The Concert and Fine Young Cannibals—The Concert—Live at the Paramount), 1989.

(As Ed Lachman) Additional cinematography, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (documentary), Telling Pictures, c. 1989.

Let the Music Dance, 1990.

Soldiers of Music: Rostropovich Returns to Russia (documentary; also known as Soldiers of Music), 1990.

(As Ed Lachman) Light Sleeper, Fine Line Features, 1992.

London Kills Me, Fine Line Features, 1992.

Mississippi Masala, Samuel Goldwyn, 1992.

My New Gun, IRS Releasing, 1992.

Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint (also known as Pets or Meat), October Films, 1992.

Dark Blood, Fine Line Features, 1993.

My Family (also known as East L.A., Cafe con leche, and My Family, mi familia), New Line Cinema, 1995.

Selena (also known as Selena: The Movie), Warner Bros., 1997.

(As Ed Lachman) Touch (also known as Les mains de Dieu, Milagres por encomenda, Tocat, Touch—Der Typ mit den magischen Haenden, and Touch—kosketus), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1997.

(As Ed Lachman) The Limey (also known as El halcon ingles, Englaenderen, L'anglais, L'inglese, Le limier, The Limey—Kostaja Lontoosta, Limey—Tasuja Londonist, O estranho, O falcao ingles, and Vengar la sangre), Artisan Entertainment, 1999.

The Virgin Suicides (also known as The Lisbon Sisters, Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides," and Virgin Suicides), Paramount Vantage, 1999.

Road Kill, 2000.

S1m0ne (also known as Simone and S1M0NE), New Line Cinema, 2001.

Sweet November (also known as Doce novembro, Doux novembre, Dulce noviembre, Ljuva November, Noviembre dulce, Suloinen marraskuu, Sweet November—Dolce novembre, and Sweet November—Eine Liebe im Herbst), Warner Bros., 2001.

Far from Heaven (also known as Loin du paradis), Focus Features, 2002.

(As Ed Lachman) Ken Park, Vitagraph Films/A-Film, 2002.

Posiednij poezd so stancii roppongi, 2004.

Stryker, 2004, Decade Distribution, 2005, Strand Releasing, 2006.

Hounddog (also known as Hound Dog), The Motion Picture Group/Full Moon Films/Deerjen Films, 2006.

I'm Not There (also known as I'm Not There: Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan), The Weinstein Company, 2006.

The Music of Regret (short musical), Double Wide Media/Perfoma/Salon 94, 2006.

A Prairie Home Companion (also known as The Last Show, A Prairie Home Companion: Last Radio Show, and Radio America), Picturehouse Entertainment, 2006.

(As Ed Lachman) Import/Export (also known as Import Export), Movienet, 2007.

Cinematographer for other feature films, documentaries, and short subjects, including Faces.

Film Director of Photography:

Collaborating director of photography, King of the Gypsies, Paramount, 1978.

Desperately Seeking Susan (also known as Susan Susan, Buscando a Susan desesperadamente, Buscant la Susan desesperadament, Cercasi Susan disperatamente, Desesperadamente a procura de Susana, Helt vild med Susan, Ketsegbeesve keresem Susant, Madonna: Psahnontas apegnosmena tin Susan, Missae olet, Susan?, Procura-se Susan Desesperadamente, Psahnontas apegnosmena tin Susan, Recherche Susan, desesperement, Rozpaczliwie poszukujac susan, Susan, var aer du?, and Susan … verzweifelt gesucht), Orion, 1985.

Director of photography for concert footage, Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (music documentary; also known as Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll), Universal, 1987.

(As Ed Lachman) The Local Stigmatic, 1989.

(As Ed Lachman) Director of photography for concert footage, Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (documentary), 1993.

(As Ed Lachman) Why Do Fools Fall in Love, Warner Bros., 1998.

(As Ed Lachman) Director of photography for desert unit, Dr T and the Women (also known as Dr. T and Dr. T and the Women), Artisan Entertainment, 2000.

Film Photographer:

Still photographer, Der Amerikanische Freund (also known as The American Friend and L'ami americain), New Yorker Films, 1977.

(As Ed Lachman) Erin Brockovich, Universal, 2000.

Street Stories (series of short documentary films; also known as Motorola Street Stories), 2004.

Film Additional Photographer:

Christo's Valley Curtain (documentary), 1974.

Last Embrace, United Artists, 1979.

(As Ed Lachman) She Dances Alone, 1981.

(As Ed Lachman) Body Rock, New World Pictures, 1984.

(As Ed Lachman) Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (documentary), Telling Pictures, c. 1989.

Film Director:

(As Ed Lachman) Assistant director, Stroszek, New Yorker Films, 1976.

Report from Hollywood (documentary), 1982.

(As Ed Lachman) The Last Trip to Harrisburg (short film; also known as Die Letzte Fahrt nach Harrisburg and Letzte Reise nach Harrisburg), 1984.

Codirector, Ken Park, Vitagraph Films/A-Film, 2002.

Street Stories (series of short documentary films; also known as Motorola Street Stories), 2004.

Film Producer:

Report from Hollywood (documentary), 1982.

(With others) Road Kill, 2000.

Film Camera Operator:

(As Ed Lachman) Stroszek, New Yorker Films, 1976.

(As Ed Lachman) Third unit camera operator, How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck … (documentary; also known as How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck—Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache), New Yorker Films, 1976.

Assistant camera operator, Der Amerikanische Freund (also known as The American Friend and L'ami americain), New Yorker Films, 1977.

Hurricane (also known as Forbidden Paradise), Paramount, 1979.

(With others) La luna (also known as Luna), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979.

(With others) No Nukes (concert film; also known as The Muse Concert: No Nukes), 1979.

They All Laughed, Moon Pictures, 1981.

In Our Hands (documentary), Richter Productions, 1984.

Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (music documentary; also known as Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll), Universal, 1987.

Film Appearances:

Lightning over Water (documentary; also known as Nick's Film—Lightning over Water and Nick's Movie), 1984.

(As Ed Lachman) Photographer, Moonlight Mile (also known as Baby's in Black, Goodbye Hello, El compromiso, La vida continua, Moonlight mile—surun tie, Moonlight mile—Voglia di ricominciare, and Vida que segue), Buena Vista, 2002.

Television Cinematographer; Series:

Tribeca, Fox, 1993.

Television Camera Operator; Movies:

(As Ed Lachman) Camera operator, Legs, ABC, 1983.

Television Cinematographer; Specials:

"The Little Sister" (also known as "Forbidden" and "The Tender Age"), American Playhouse, PBS, 1984.

"Karajan in Salzburg" (also known as "Von Karajan's Salzburg"), Great Performances, PBS, 1988.

Cinematographer for the experimental film series, Songs for Drella: Lou Reed, John Cale (concert; also known as Songs for Drella), PBS, c. 1989, Channel 4 (England), 1990.

The Life of Herbert von Karajan, PBS, 1991.

"Abbado in Berlin: The First Year," Great Performances, PBS, 1992.

"An American Story" (also known as "After the Glory"), Hallmark Hall of Fame, CBS, 1992.

Rock the Vote, Fox, 1992.

A Day in the Life of Country Music, CBS, 1993.

Horse Opera (opera), [Great Britain], 1993.

Television Director; Specials:

"Get Your Kicks on Route 66," Imagining America, broadcast on American Playhouse, PBS, 1989.

Songs for Drella: Lou Reed, John Cale (concert; also known as Songs for Drella), PBS, c. 1989, Channel 4 (England), 1990.

"Every Time We Say Goodbye" and "Well, Did You Evah!" segments, Red, Hot & Blue (also known as Red Hot and Blue and Red Hot + Blue), ABC and Channel 4, 1990.

Rock the Vote, Fox, 1992.

A Day in the Life of Country Music, CBS, 1993.

Television Work; Other; Specials:

Second unit camera operator, Hule's Predigt (also known as Hules Sermon), New Yorker Films, 1980.

Director of photography, A Gathering of Old Men (also known as Louisiana and Murder on the Bayou), CBS, 1987.

Photographer, "Get Your Kicks on Route 66," Imagining America, broadcast on American Playhouse, PBS, 1989.

Television Work; Episodic:

Cinematographer, "That Rhythm … Those Blues," The American Experience, PBS, 1988.

Second camera operator, "Neue Welten—Hinter dem europaeischen Horizont," 2000 Jahre Christentum (also known as 2000 Years of Christianity), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF, Germany), 1999.

Television Cinematographer; Pilots:

Toonces, the Cat Who Could Drive a Car (also known as Toonces and Friends), NBC, 1992.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Himself, "Far from Heaven," Anatomy of a Scene, Sundance Channel, c. 2002.

RECORDINGS

Video Work:

Director and cinematographer, Aerobic Striptease (also known as Carmen Electra's "Aerobic Striptease"), DNA Studio, 2003.

Videos:

Himself, Stryker Diary (short), Wild Boars of Manitoba, 2005.

Music Video Work:

(Cinematographer) Madonna, "Into the Groove," 1985.

(Director) Annie Lennox, "Every Time We Say Goodbye," 1990.

WRITINGS

Novels:

(With Elieba Levine) Chausses trappes (photo novel), Editions de Minuit, 1981.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Entertainment Weekly, March 21, 2003, p. 48.