Director

Steven Spielberg

27 prints

Spielberg uses color as emotional shorthand with uncommon precision. The amber warmth of his suburban worlds, E.T., Close Encounters, gives way to deliberate desaturation when the stakes shift. Schindler's List's famous red coat in a black-and-white world remains one of cinema's most devastating uses of color as moral witness. His collaboration with Janusz Kaminski deepened this vocabulary into something expressionistic.