Bill Nichols is Professor in San Francisco State University’s Department of Cinema, whose areas of expertise include documentary and ethnographic film, film history and theory, Postwar American Cinema, film style, and issues of social and historical representation. He has written ten books on the documentary and the various aspects of cinema. He has curated film programs and lectured in Europe, Latin America and Asia.
为了考察一个名叫戴维·阿兰·哈维David Alan Harvey的摄影师,一位如今业已退休的摄影主任鲍勃·吉卡Bob Gilka把他派到纽约的COOPERASTOWN实习。三个月后,戴维接到了实习拍摄任务。鲍勃的信这样写道:“戴维,我很高兴你年轻力壮,因为我不得不告诉你,我要让你感到年老体衰。”<国家地理>摄影家的故事