One Hour Photo

“Nobody ever takes a photograph
of something they want to forget.”

– Syd Parrish –

A recent trip to the One Hour Photo at Walgreens recently lead me to Re-visit one of my Favorite Movies: One Hour Photo, written and directed by Mark Romanek and starring Robin Williams as Syd Parrish. The film, with its hyper-real cinematography actually pays homage to photographers by naming many of the characters after them. Check them out on Wikipedia.  Examples include:

• Yoshi Araki (named for Nobuyoshi Araki);
• Det. Van Der Zee (James Van Der Zee);
• Det. Outerbridge (Paul Outerbridge);
• Maya Burson (Nancy Burson);
• Mrs. von Unwerth (Ellen von Unwerth)
• Mr. Siskind (Aaron Siskind).
• In addition, the hotel at the end of the movie, the Edgerton, is also named for a noted photographer — Harold Eugene Edgerton.