Moving Images, Understanding Media

Chapter 4 Storytelling with Light 139

Figure 4-20 Still from Touch

of Evil, directed by Orson

Welles with cinematography

by Russell Metty, noted for

its intense contrasts between

light and dark. (Courtesy

Universal/Photofest)

Figure 4-21 Man and baby in Lazybones (directed by Frank Borzage, 1925) are in

sharp defi nition with background in soft focus. (Courtesy Fox/Photofest)

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