In this 1992 American-Japanese documentary directed by Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy and Stuart Samuels, we are shown a 92-minute glimpse of the art of cinematography since the conception of cinema in the late eighteen-hundreds to contemporary films in the late nineteen-eighties. “Visions of Light: the Art of Cinematography” (1992) is a chronologic collage of several films, narrated in English by different directors of photography; the cinematography of this documentary is done by Detroit’s own Nancy Shreiber. Compared to a walk through a cinema museum, this film is divided in six parts: the silent era and German expressionism; black and white, sound, and the audio system; the language of noir; color, wide screen, and the New Wave; the New
