About
An interview from the 2015 Band Pro Open House in Burbank, California with Steven Poster, ASC. A Chicago native, Poster began his college education at Southern Illinois University as a member of a special program conceived by Buckminster Fuller, the master of problem-solving through deductive reasoning. Transferring to the Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, Poster learned how to 'see light' and was taught a true professional discipline. Returning to Chicago, he graduated from the Institute of Design of the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he was greatly influenced by the philosophy of Bauhaus design - that form should follow function.
Steven Poster launched his cinematography career in Chicago, at age twenty-one, and began with filming television commercials, cinema verite documentaries, and industrial films. He soon moved on to feature films, working as Second Unit Director of Photography on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and did significant additional photography on "Blade Runner."
As Director of Photography, Poster has filmed a variety of motion pictures including "Stuart Little 2," "Daddy Day Care," "Rocky V," "The Cemetery Club," "Life Stinks," "Opportunity Knocks," "Next of Kin," "Big Top Pee-wee," and "Testament" as well as the controversial, award-winning music video for Madonna, "Like a Prayer." He received an ASC nomination for Best Cinematography for Ridley Scott's "Someone To Watch Over Me" and has the distinction of being the only American cinematographer to shoot a French language film in France, "Une Chance sur Deux" for director Patrice Leconte.
In this interview we talk with Steven about the current state of the industry, The International Cinematographers Guild, and The American Society of Cinematographers.
