Film Forum

Brian Hamill, Woody Allen’s longtime on-set photographer will appear at Film Forum for a Q&A following the 7pm show of Manhattan on March 16. Among the hundreds of photographs he shot of Woody’s films, Mr. Hamill took the iconic photograph of the 59th Street Bridge for Manhattan.

Brian Hamill was born in Brooklyn, NY and studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In the mid 1960s, Hamill began his long career as a photojournalist covering everything from the Rock & Roll scene, politics, and entertainment to sports. In the early 1970s, he traveled to Northern Ireland to photograph the troubles there for The New York Times Magazine, and simultaneously widened his photojournalistic scope into a unit still photographer on movie sets. Since then he has worked as a unit still photographer on over seventy-five movies including twenty-six Woody Allen films, resulting in the much acclaimed coffee table photo book entitled “Woody Allen At Work: The Photographs of Brian Hamill” (Harry N. Abrams, 1995). Since 2005 Hamill has had many solo exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, Santa Fe and Austin with his “Tests of Time” images of John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, Robert DeNiro from Raging Bull and Woody Allen from Manhattan and Annie Hall. In addition to his movie work, Hamill has an extensive file of photographs that includes the “Troubles In Northern Ireland – 1972”, Rock & Roll, boxing, and an extensive file of travel photographs from around the world.

All Manhattan photos © Brian Hamill

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