Movie actors are media darlings. Movie directors get a lot of press. Cinematographers, on the other hand, tend to fly lower on the public radar.
But an exhibition at the Mexican Cultural Institute will shine a spotlight on one such artist. “Gabriel Figueroa, Cinematographer: Great Moments in Mexico’s Golden Age of Cinema,” opening Sept. 9, will display film clips, photographs, posters and other items marking the achievements of Figueroa, a seminal figure in that Golden Age (sometimes said to stretch roughly from the 1930s through the 1950s). Known for his distinctive visual style, including dramatic shots of landscapes, Figueroa (1907–1997) collaborated extensively with the Mexican director Emilio Fernández (nicknamed “El Indio”) as well as with the surrealist Luis Buñuel. He teamed with director John Ford for the “The Fugitive” (1947), and he earned a 1965 Academy Award nomination for his work on John Huston’s “The Night of the Iguana.”
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