American Cinematographer Magazine

American Cinematographer is the world’s leading journal on motion-imaging techniques, with a special focus on the entertainment industry’s most innovative and talented directors of photography. The magazine serves filmmakers by exploring their artistic thought processes and explaining the technical means by which they realize their creative visions, whether on film, video, or with computers. In addition, our editorial seeks to keep readers abreast of advancements in all facets of motion-picture imaging technology — the tools cinematographers use to ply their trade — and to inform them of visually extraordinary productions, including feature films, television shows, commercials and music videos. Approximately one-third of our readers work regularly as directors of photography and cinematographers. Thirty percent are directors or producers who wish to understand the work of the cinematographer. A great many of our readers are students and camera-department assistants who aspire to be cinematographers. Most of the other various subdivisions of filmmaking personnel have small representations in our readership, including editors, production designers, special-effects technicians and screenwriters