Tom Hurwitz, ASC, 1947 – , Leo’s son, he worked in various capacities on Do You know a Man Named Goya, 1966; Light and the City, 1969; Discovery in a Landscape, 1970; Dialogue with a Woman Departed, 1980. Although he took a five-year break in the late 60’s to be a full-time anti-war and community … Continued
Peter Glushanok, 1911-1996, Cinematographer on Strange Victory, 1947. A cameraman and documentary director, Glushanok made films on a variety of subjects, including the dance of Martha Graham, A Dancer’s World, 1957 and Appalachian Spring, 1958. Later, he was an Assistant Professor at NYU. nytimes.com
Herbert Kline 1909-1999, Kline directed the photography for Heart of Spain, 1937, about the Spanish Civil War, with Geza Karpathy a soviet still photographer. Klein, who had been an editor with Leo Hurwitz of New Theater magazine and also a member of the Workers Film and Photo League, went to Europe and then to embattled … Continued
Pare Lorentz, 1905-1992, Celebrated writer-director of documentary films, he employed Hurwitz on The Plow that Broke the Plains, 1936, Leo’s first serious work for hire. Lorentz moved to California after college in West Virginia, and began work as a journalist and film reviewer, after having become disillusioned with the corporate ethos, working as a writer … Continued
Paul Strand, 1890-1976 – Hurwitz met Paul Strand, already recognized for two decades as one of America’s greatest and most influential still photographers, in 1931 when Hurwitz was working for ‘Creative Arts’ magazine. At that point Strand had already filmed Manahatta, 1921 (with Charles Sheeler) and helped to found The Photo League (later the Workers … Continued