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Néstor Almendros
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Cinematographer Born: October 30, 1930 in Barcelona, Spain Death: March 4, 1992 in Manhattan, New York City, NY Biography:While growing up in Barcelona, cinematographer Nestor Almendros and his friends spent their spare time making amateur movies. Almendros curbed his cinematic impulses long enough to major in philosophy and literature at Havana University, but he was back behind the camera in the film department of CCNY and at Rome's Centro Sperimente di Cinematografia. After briefly teaching Spanish at Vassar, Almendros returned to Cuba in 1959. He worked as a documentary director with Havana's ICAIC, but eventually grew weary of having his creativity rechannelled into pro-Castro propaganda. Moving to Paris in 1961, he worked on a number of TV programs and short subjects. Beginning with his camerawork for 1965's "Six in Paris", Almendros inaugurated his long and rewarding collaboration with director Eric Rohmer, a teaming that yielded such splendid results as "La Collectioneuse" (1967) "My Night at Maude's" (1969)... Full Biography
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