November 21, 2009
Caleb Deschanel will receive the American Society of Cinematographers
Lifetime Achievement Award. When the ASC holds its 24th Annual
Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration in Hollywood on February 27.
He recently sat down for a conversation with Bob Fisher for Digital
Cinema Report.
 Digital Cinema Report: Where were you born and raised?
Caleb Deschanel: I was born in Philadelphia. My family moved to
Annapolis when I was 11 years old. We lived there until I went to
college.
DCR: What was your first experience with photography?
CB: I got a Brownie Hawkeye as a gift on my 11th birthday. I didn’t ask
for a camera and didn’t particularly want one. I enjoyed taking
photographs, but I never really thought much about any of the pictures
I took until we got a family dog. It was just a puppy. We were using a
big cardboard box as a doghouse. I remember taking a picture of the
puppy and doghouse. When that photo came back, I remember thinking that
it was better than the other pictures I had taken. That inspired me to
take more photographs and to try to figure out why some were better
than others.
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