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It is with great grief that we report the recent passing of an outstanding Polish cinematographer and a teacher Mieczys\u0142aw Jahoda<\/b>, who died on 16th May 2009. He shot almost 40 feature films and he was the first one in Poland to shoot on Eastmancolor film and in CinemaScope. He went down in history of Polish cinema as a sensitive master of image who shaped many filmmakers of the Polish School movement and who was a creative supporter of the younger generations of its followers. <\/p>\n
He started working in film industry already as a student of cinematography at Lodz Film School. In 1951 he was an assistant to Andrzej Ancut<\/b>, DoP on The Village Mill<\/i><\/span> (Gromada) by Jerzy Kawalerowicz<\/b>. After graduation, at first he worked as a second cinematographer on several movies including Celullose<\/i><\/span> (Celuloza) and Under the Phrygian Star<\/i><\/span> (Pod gwiazd\u0105 frygijsk\u0105). His debut as a director of photography was with Winter Twilight<\/i><\/span> (Zimowy zmierzch) directed by Stanis\u0142aw Lenartowicz<\/b>. During his long-lasting career he worked with many outstanding Polish directors: Wojciech J. Has<\/b>, Aleksander Ford<\/b>, Andrzej Wajda<\/b>, Tadeusz Konwicki<\/b>, Andrzej \u017bu\u0142awski<\/b>, Tadeusz Chmielewski<\/b> i Jerzy Gruza<\/b>. He also repeatedly worked with Jan Rybkowski<\/b> and Stanis\u0142aw J\u0119dryka<\/b>. <\/p>\n In addition to his work on dramatic features Mieczys\u0142aw Jahoda<\/b> was also involved in directing photography on documentaries and music films (Bema pami\u0119ci rapsod \u017ca\u0142obny<\/i><\/span> starring Czes\u0142awem Niemenem<\/b>, dir. Janusz Rzeszewski<\/b>). In 1978, together with Rzeszewski<\/b>, he directed a musical comedy Hallo Szpicbr\u00f3dka czyli ostatni wyst\u0119p kr\u00f3la kasiarzy<\/i><\/span>. <\/p>\n Since 1963 he was a teacher at Lodz Film School and since 1982 he was a full professor of the film art. From 1964 till 2005 he was an artistic tutor of several dozen of student etudes. After 1987 he retired as a cinematographer and devoted himself to teaching. <\/p>\n Selected filmography: <\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is with great grief that we report the recent passing of an outstanding Polish cinematographer and a teacher Mieczys\u0142aw…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiadomosci-plus-camerimage-2009"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n