John Alton

Birthday: October 05, 2001

While cinematographer John Alton was adept with color photography, he was at his arguable best when using black and white. Indeed it is in the shadowy realm of film noir that he is best known. In that genre, Alton possessed the rare ability to photograph exterior shots as effectively as studio work. Starting at MGM as a lab technician in 1924, Hungarian-born Alton became a cameraman within ...more