Hiro Narita. Depth of Field: Life and Work of a Cinematographer

Hiro Narita is a cinematographer with a chameleonic style. During fifty years of his career in American cinema, he has photographed documentaries, television films, commercials, and major Hollywood productions. Narita has been able to work on films that are very different from each other in content and visual style, collaborating with established directors.

From filming street riots for Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, operating camera for Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz and capturing additional images for David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Narita began his cinematographic ventures in diverse milieu.

His belief that each story motivates its own visual expression was central to his cinematic endeavor. Never Cry Wolf directed by Carroll Ballard was the film that made his reputation as a top Hollywood cinematographer. In this book Narita tells of his extraordinary artistic and human life spent alongside his wife Barbara and great cultural personalities.

Hiro Narita ASC is a Japanese-American cinematographer, member of the American Society of Cinematographers and Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences. For his work on Never Cry Wolf he won the Boston Society of Film Critics Award and the National Society of Film Critics Award. Among his films are Farewell to Manzanar, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Dirty Pictures, The Rocketeer, Hocus Pocus, The Arrival. Furthermore, Narita's credits for additional photography include work in Zabriskie Point, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Unbearable

Lightness of Being, Always and The Time Machine.

Gerry Guida is an Italian film critic and expert in cinematography. His publications for Artdigiland are: Luce su Alberto Sordi! Alberto Sordi nei ricordi dell'autore della fotografia Sergio D'Offizi (2020), Cafè Express. Viaggio in treno al termine della notte (2021), Pane e cioccolata. Brusati, Manfredi e l'odissea della migrazione (2021) and Il sorpasso. Viaggio nell'Italia del boom (2022). Numerous English interviews with directors, cinematographers, camera and Steadicam operators, visual effects supervisors, editors, photohraphers and performers are available on Artdigiland's blog.