D.A. Pennebaker, the legendary documentarian behind 'Monterey Pop' and Bob Dylan's 'Dont Look Back,' has died at the age of 94
Chronicling rock stars and political operatives, Pennebaker sought to strip away the artifice — both in nonfiction films and from the famous figures who populated his movies — to craft deceptively casual snapshots of people we thought we knew. Whether in, his handheld camera made viewers feel as if they were along for the ride as history was taking place.
, “Half the things that happened to me, that I look back on and were really good, were all kind of I think of as luck. Chance.”Donn Alan Pennebaker was born July 15, 1925, growing up in Chicago to a father, a successful photographer, who divorced his mother when he was still a boy. “I didn’t want to be what he was,” Pennebaker later admitted. “He had no time for a family.
— a crucial development in the history of nonfiction filmmaking. “It was the synch that really changed documentaries,” Pennebaker explained to, “[E]verything had to be lip synched when we edited. We had to find the synch. Nothing was even cued. So that was a big problem.” No longer encumbered, he was able to work much more quickly and freely, which he did brilliantly when he signed on to direct a film about Dylan as he toured Britain in 1965. The two men had a handshake deal but no formal plan regarding what Pennebaker would shoot. “Dylan was important — that was the first thing I was convinced of,” the filmmaker recalled. “I wanted to find out more about him, and I didn’t know any other way.
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