On Set

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First edition of On Set by Greg Williams. First impression. Medium format hardback in fine condition. About In his introduction to On Set, director Alan Parker speculates that it w as the experience British photographer Greg Williams gained in war zones such as Grozny and Sierra Leone that allowed him to come away from 42 movies with such a gripping dossier on the renaissance in British film. The absence of any recent serious rivals to Williams film set documentary work supports the notion that it takes a fearless, cunning and dedicated individual to manoeuvre round the obstacles of forbidding publicists, closed sets, irate cameramen and uncompliant lighting. "As a photographer and film enthusiast, I wanted to revive the genre of the Life Magazine set reports of the 1950s and 60s," says Williams. "For a variety of reasons, the past 30 years have seen photographic access to the film industry severely restricted, limited mainly to portrait shots. I wanted to re-establish reportage as a respected form of film photography." Show more