Cinematographer Nykvist
Nykvist was born in His parents were who spent most of their lives in the ,
so Nykvist was raised by relatives in Sweden and saw his parents
rarely. His father was a keen amateur photographer of African wildlife,
which may have sparked Nykvist's interest in the visual arts.A talented athlete in his youth, Nykvist's first cinematic effort was to film himself taking a , to improve his jumping technique. After a year at the Municipal School for Photographers in , he entered the Swedish film industry at the age of 19.In 1941, he became an at Sandrews studio, working on The Poor Millionaire. He moved to in 1943 to work at ,
returning to Sweden two years later. In 1945, aged 23, he became a
fully-fledged cinematographer, with his first solo credit on The Children from Frostmo Mountain.He worked on many small
for the next few years, and spent some time with his parents in Africa
filming wildlife, footage which was later released as a documentary
entitled In the Footsteps of the Witch Doctor (also known as Under the Southern Cross).Back in Sweden, he began to work with the legendary director in 1953 on (released in the US as The Naked Night). He was one of three cinematographers to work on that film, the others being and Nykvist would eventually become Bergman's full-time cinematographer
and push the director's work in a new direction, away from the
theatrical look of his earlier films. He worked as sole cameraman on
Bergman's Oscar-winning films in 1959 and in 1960. He revolutionised the way faces are shot inwith Bergman's psychologically intense in 1966.
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