Adam Holender

{{short description|Polish cinematographer (born 1937)}}

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Adam Holender (born 13 November 1937) is a Polish cinematographer, best known for his work on Midnight Cowboy.

He was born 13 November 1937 in Kraków, Poland, the son of a judge.{{cite web |url=http://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/holender.htm |title=Adam Holender |publisher=Cinematographers.nl |date= |accessdate=20 September 2015 |archive-date=7 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107071332/http://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/holender.htm |url-status=dead }} In 1939, he and his family were deported to a Siberian labor camp, and not allowed to return to Kraków until 1947.

Holender studied architecture before enrolling at PWSFTviT in Łódź, from where he graduated in 1964.{{cite web|title=Adam Holender ASC|url=http://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/holender.htm|website=cinematographers|accessdate=15 September 2015|archive-date=7 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107071332/http://www.cinematographers.nl/PaginasDoPh/holender.htm|url-status=dead}}

Midnight Cowboy was Holender's first cinematography assignment: he was recommended to director John Schlesinger by Holender's childhood friend, filmmaker Roman Polanski.{{cite news |author=Goldstein, Patrick |author-link=Patrick Goldstein |title='Midnight Cowboy' and the very dark horse its makers rode in on |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-feb-27-ca-cowboy27-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=February 27, 2005 |access-date=August 27, 2009}} According to Schlesinger his inspiration to make the movie came from the 1967 Yugoslav film When I Am Dead and Gone by a Serbian director Živojin Pavlović.Surfing the Black – Yugoslav Black Wave Cinema and Its Transgressive Moments

Author: Gal Kirn, Dubravka Sekulić and Žiga Testen Publisher: Jan van Eyck {{ISBN|978-90-72076-51-9}}