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The Accidental Cinematographer
Top: John Belushi
(left) hits his mark
on location in
Chicago for
Continental
Divide, with
Bailey at the
camera. Bottom
left (from left):
First AD Joe
Napolitano,
director Stuart
Rosenberg and
Bailey shoot a
dance scene for
The Pope of
Greenwich
Village. Bottom
right (clockwise
from bottom):
First AC Mako
Koiwai, director
Lawrence Kasdan
and Bailey in the
New Mexico
desert for
Silverado.
Robert Altman's 3 Women, Bailey
learned about setting an optimistic tone
on the set from Charles Rosher Jr.,
ASC. And while operating for Néstor
Almendros, ASC on Terrence Malick's
Days of Heaven, he observed brilliant
applications of single-source natural
lighting and witnessed the cinematographer's deep appreciation for the collaboration necessary to make a film. Bailey
also served as camera operator on
William Richert's Winter Kills. He credits the stunning anamorphic compositions of that film's cinematographer,
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Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, for inspiring
his own abiding love for the widescreen
format.
After shooting some small nonunion features, Bailey was taken on by a
young agent named JoAn Kincaid. She
secured a meeting between the cinematographer and writer-director Paul
Schrader, who was prepping American
Gigolo for Paramount. A former critic
and an ardent admirer of the same
European cinema as Bailey, Schrader
went into the meeting intent on hiring a
European to shoot the film. "Then John
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started telling me about The
Conformist," the director recalls. "I
thought I knew [Bernardo] Bertolucci's
films, but I didn't know that one. It
wasn't available at the time, but it was a
Paramount film and John got them to
screen it for us, and it was like a light on
the Damascus road! The Conformist
remains for me and for many directors
of my generation the signal achievement
of visual storytelling. And the fact was
that John had turned me onto this. I was
at a point in my career where I was looking for a more aggressive visual style,
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