This article is about the A cinematographer (from cinema photographer) is one photographing with a motion picture camera. The title is generally equivalent to director of photography (DP or DoP), used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and techical decisions related to the... cinematographer. For the Hungarian This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). The United Nations, with its headquarters in New York City, is the largest international diplomatic organization. Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between accredited persons (the diploma of the diplomat) representing groups or nations. It... diplomat, see László Kovács.

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Kovács studied cinema in Hungary between 1952 and 1956, and together with Vilmos Zsigmond, a fellow student, he filmed the 1956 Hungarian Revolution on black and white 35mm film as it developed day by day. After smuggling the 30,000 feet of film to the West in November of that year however, the revolution was no longer considered newsworthy and it was not until some years later that it was screened on CBS.

Kovács settled in the United States, and worked at several menial jobs including making maple syrup, printing microfilm documents in an insurance office, before making several "no-budget" films together with Vilmos Zsigmond.

His breakthrough came with This article is about the movie Easy Rider. There is also an article about the slang expression easy rider. Easy Rider is a 1969 road movie directed by Dennis Hopper which many see as representing the embodiment of the hippie lifestyle of the 1960s. The film tells the story of... Easy Rider starring Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in 1969, and since then he has filmed over 70 feature films including Five Easy Pieces, Paper Moon and New York, New York .

References

• Masters of Light - Conversations with cinematographers (1984) Schaefer, S & Salvato, L., ISBN 0-520-05336-2

External links

• Laszlo Kovacs (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004088/) at the The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), owned by Amazon.com, is an online database of information about movie stars, movies, television shows, commercials, and video games. The IMDb has an extensive amount of information on works, including basic details such as actors and directors, plot summaries and reviews, as well as... Internet Movie Database
• Brief biography and credits (http://www.beer1.freeler.nl/PaginasDoPh/kovacs.htm)
• [1]  (http://www.cameraguild.com/magazine/stoo1298a.htm) International Cinematographers Guild Biography